Promoted artcles wire, was: Re: [Imc-uk-features] I want one of those - but not one of them

[Chris]

Hi

On Thu 20-Oct-2005 at 03:54:03PM +0100, Roy Bard wrote:
> 
> I want one of these:
> 
> Cass, Noel wrote:
> 
> > a 'promoted' wire, with administrators having the
> > power to promote articles applying the guidelines even
> > more strictly than for the newswire, giving a
> > higher-quality wire of genuinely 'indymedia' style
> > postings. These would be those that are poste by
> > individuals, not groups, and which actually report on
> > events or news, using no corporate re-posts and
> > conforming to the ethic of non-hierarchical,
> > grassroots campaigning on social justice and
> > environmental issues.
> 
> I think this eloquesntly encapsualtes the thing I
> envision - my only reservation is the "not groups" bit -
> some stuff from appropriate camapaigns would be suitable
> imho

Yeah, this makes sense to me, the front page could have
the promoted newswire by default and have a view all posts
link which swaps the content of the right hand col (as nyc
and www have).

*However* how will the archives, topics and regions work?

Unless these can be left showing all unhidden posts it
could get very complicated... take the newswire archives
for example:

  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/newswire/archive.html

If the centre col here only has promoted articles and not
both types then how would one get to any material that is
a couple of years old and hasn't ever been promoted...?

Chris

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