[imc-sheffield] SURVEY: UK aggregator consultation - deadline 6 July

Tue Jun 22 02:34:04 PDT 2010

Indymedia Uk Frontpage Survey / Consulta

Deadline: *July 6th*

At the network meeting in Nottingham 2008, it was discussed that, in
order to represent all content posted to Indymedia sites around the
country, the frontpage should pull together all the posts, creating a UK
frontpage with even more awesome reporting than was already happening.

This was confirmed at the meeting in Bristol this year. As there are
several people working on making these changes happen, we need to find
out what kind of front page the network wants. Technical developments
can easily be led by techs with less technically people not
participating in the process. To create a participatory and inclusive
process and make sure everyone has a say, we came up with this
consultation. We want you to decide the what and how of the aggregation.
We have tried to make this survey accessible to all levels of
understanding, and provide explanations where needed. You can get an
overview of them at
https://docs.indymedia.org/Local/UkIndymediaFrontPageSpec#Definitions_Explanations_and_Exa
but direct links are inserted in the appropriate places below. If we
aren’t making things clear, please let us know and don’t be shy to ask.
You can email imc-uk-network, use IRC or you’re welcome to get in touch
with m3shrom and mara directly, if you don’t want to email the lists, on
uk-aggregator-consulta at indymedia.org

On the first glance it may seem pretty straight forward: We get all the
articles and put them in one wire. But there’s a whole bunch of
questions that need to be answered. Is the actual article duplicated,
and displayed on the indymedia.org.uk website, or do we want to link to
the original? How are features made? How does moderation work? How do we
create a good navigation and allow people to find articles they are
interested in, about a certain topic or region, or from a certain date?

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You can participate in the consulta by using the survey that is up on
crabgrass. Crabgrass is a platform of organising tools created by the
awesome folks at riseup. A lot of local collectives have groups on
there, and it was used for writing UK features while docs was down, so
you may already have a login.

To fill in the survey, you will have to create a login at we.riseup.net,
and join either of the following groups or the UK network:

https://we.riseup.net/uk-network | https://we.riseup.net/imc-uk |
https://we.riseup.net/nottsimc | https://we.riseup.net/imc-london |
https://we.riseup.net/birmingham-indymedia |
https://we.riseup.net/imc-northern | https://we.riseup.net/bristolindymedia

Once you are logged in and a member of one of these groups, you can
proceed to go to:

https://we.riseup.net/uk-network/imc-uk-aggregator-consulta

You will come to a page that doesn't actually let you do anything, but
gives an overview of all the questions. To fill in the survey, click on
"Take Survey" below the title. To save your answers, click "respond" at
the bottom of the page.

If you start filling it in and want to finish it later, or change your
mind after responding, you can always go back to "Take Survey" and can
either edit your response or delete it and start over, but please
remember that the deadline is *July 6th* - any changes after that may
not be represented in the evaluation.

If you do experience any problems with any of this, please do get in
touch and let us know. Crabgrass can be a bit confusing, but we'll do
our best to sort out any problems.

If you aren't comfortable with using crabgrass, you can also:

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If you want to reply via email to this survey then please hit reply and
send to imc-uk-network at lists.indmedia.org

Please reply and delete multiple choice questions to leave your preference
- or add your text between the <****  ****> markers.

1) How should posts appear when linked to from the "aggregated
newswire" of an 'UK IMC aggregated frontpage'?

* links to original posts, title only
* link with abstract and link to original post, title and abstract only
* link to page on the uk aggregated site with full content (as much as
technically possible) and link to original post

definitions :
'aggregation' - http://tiny.booki.cc/?aggregation
'UK Imc aggregated frontpage' - http://tiny.booki.cc/?aggregatedfrontpage
'uk aggregated site' - http://tiny.booki.cc/?agg_website
'aggregated newswire' - http://tiny.booki.cc/?definitionsimc

Some Examples of aggregated news pages

original sketch https://docs.indymedia.org/Local/ImcUkStartpageDesign1
a design from mara - https://we.riseup.net/mara/syndicated-frontpage-frames
implementation in Mir - http://redesign.indymedia.org.uk/
"drupal" CMS working page -  http://indy.clearerchannel.org

2) Other suggestion for how posts should appear on the "aggregated
newswire" (this question is included as we are aware of the limitations
of the above multiple choice question):

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3a) How should the aggregated newswire of the UK Imc frontpage be moderated?
This is a bit of an open question as there are many different combinations
of way in which the front page newswire could be moderated. You can leave
more than one.

* Only feeds of promoted wires are pulled in from local and mir newswires
* Unmoderated newsfeeds is pulled in, and articles are hidden by pulling
an hidden article feed
* Unmoderated newsfeeds is pulled in, and articles are hidden by both
sites decisions being made on imc-uk-moderation and local imc list
(unless post is clearly spam / bonkers)

'newsfeeds' http://tiny.booki.cc/?feeds
'unmoderated feed' http://tiny.booki.cc/?unmoderatedfeed
'promoted feed / wire' http://tiny.booki.cc/?promotedfeed

3b) Do you have another ideas how we could deal with moderation of
articles coming in via feeds

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4) How do we deal with duplicate posts that have been posted to several
Imc sites? - select one
* delete the duplicates and keep the first posted
* delete the duplicates and link to the one on UK newswire
* delete the duplicates and link to the one posted on the most relevant
newswire (moderation guideline needed)

definitions
'duplicates' http://tiny.booki.cc/?duplicates

5) Do you have another idea how we could deal with duplicate posts that
have been posted to several Imc sites?

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6) How do you want to deal with newswires and different media types?

* only one wire that includes all articles, photo reports, videos, radio
shows and events
* one wire that includes all content types, but a separate UK calendar
for events
* one wire that includes all content types, but also the option to see
posts by content type (images, video, audio…) and separate UK calendar
for events

7) Newswire content from other cool feeds: there’s lots of other cool
media projects, would they be pulled in as well if they are solidarity
with the Indymedia POU and agreed as part of an IMC UK process? (e.g.
Schnews…)

* no, we should only include Indymedia sites
* yes, we should have a separate wire for other cool media groups
* yes, we should pull in everyone who wants to be part of the syndicated
page and meets POU

'POU' Principles of Unity -
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/PrinciplesOfUnity

8) If you said yes to the above question, how should the other media be
displayed?

* only see Indymedia news as default with option to see others
* see other media wire, but give the option to only see Indymedia
articles as default

9) Other comments on an aggregated UK newswire. Please add any feature
requests, issues or comments here.

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10) How should the middle column look?

* A features middle column which is a list of features from local
collectives and the UK site including media – like the current UK front page
*  The features middle columns are divided in two to fit in lots of
links to regional newswires and media features and local / national
features – like the Notts redesign page_
* Other (please use box below)

some examples:
original sketch https://docs.indymedia.org/Local/ImcUkStartpageDesign1
a design from mara - https://we.riseup.net/mara/syndicated-frontpage-frames
implementation in Mir - http://redesign.indymedia.org.uk/
"drupal" CMS working page -  http://indy.clearerchannel.org

11) How should the middle column look?

Please add more details or links to how the middle column, should look
and what features should be available.

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12) How should the main feature on indymedia.org.uk start page be
created? - select one

* The middle column main feature is the latest features from all collectives
* The middle column main feature is a random recent feature from all
collectives
* The middle column main feature is a random recent features from
'promoted' features decided by imc-uk-features
* The middle column main feature is manually created on imc-uk site by
imc-uk-features process.
* The features middle column only has features manually created on the
syndication page

13) Please tell us of other solutions / features requests / comments /
issues for organising the middle column.

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14) Features content from other sites: Many media and news projects
create features that it might be good to include – for example Mule in
Manchester – We could aggregate and display these features too.

* pull in features of proposed and agreed collectives
* pull in features of Indymedia sites only
* pull in features of other collectives but only see Indymedia's default
with option to see others
* pull in features of other collectives but give the option to only see
Indymedia articles as default

'pull in features' - http://tiny.booki.cc/?pullinginmedia
'for example Mule in Manchester' - http://mindymedia.clearerchannel.org

15) Other ideas / feature requests for including content other cool sites:

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16) What features should an indymedia.org.uk publish page have?

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16) Navigational options: tick what you want to have on indymedia.org.uk
site

* free tags (regional, topic, anything)
* separate topic and location tags - free tags
* static categories (regional and topic created by process)
* major mobilisations (fixed created by process)
* archives by date
* keyword search
* advanced search
* other (please fill in below)

17)  Navigational options: please write any other suggestions for navigation

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18) Topics, Categories, Tags... The different publishing systyems used
by collectives, as well as the sites of other media groups will have
different categories and navigational aides. How can we bring all this
together to create a meaningful navigation by topics?

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19) Regions, Geotagging, Location tags... On the Mir site regions are
ticked when publishing, hyperactive asks people to include location
tags, how do we bring these different systems together to allow people
to find content for specific regions?

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20) What other features do you want the aggregated UK site to have in
terms of navigation?

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21) What other features do you want the aggregated UK site to have?

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22) What other issues do you want to raise?

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**** Replying by email
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If you want to reply via email to this survey then please hit reply and
send to imc-uk-network at lists.indmedia.org

Please reply and delete multiple choice questions to leave your preference
- or add your text between the <****  ****> markers.