[Imc-uk-network] a process for the syndication site

[anargeek]

Hi

On Mon 26-Apr-2010 at 03:36:36PM +0100, Sy wrote:
> 
> 1) why is most of the article not there? The syndicated post contains
> the story summary, but not the actual contents of the post... Is this
> something to do with the way we have our newswire feed set up or
> something to do with how they're being pulled in?

It's because the RSS feed only contains the description.

> We have a tech session scheduled for this week, so if it's a case of
> us needing to alter the feed we can can have a go at it then.

If you want to create a new feed that has the whole article content and
the embeded media in the HTML that would be cool, I guess that ideally
the content would be in another element than the description but I guess
it doesn't matter if it's all in the description -- that should be
simpler to get working.

> 2) would it be possible to display the full size image rather than a
> thumbnail which makes the text on the image illegible. Again if this
> is a case of us changing things at the Bristol end let me know and
> I'll try to coerce someone less technically incompetent than myself
> into altering things.

It's becaues this is what your feed contains -- look:

- https://bristol.indymedia.org/rss.xml

> Thanks again for getting this working, and the feed image definitely
> makes it easier to find the syndicated posts... cheers for doing that
> and adding the links back to the original posts too :)

No problem, should we also be pulling the podcast feed?

- https://bristol.indymedia.org/podcast.xml

The video and audio items in this are not in the feed we are pulling...

- https://bristol.indymedia.org/rss.xml

We could either add this feed in or if you wanted to create a feed
specifically for the UK site that might be best, then you can make sure
that everything you want syndicated is in it, you could even add a 'uk'
tickbox to your publishing page so that users could choose if their
article is added to the RSS feed for the UK site if you wanted...

I see that when you make a newswire post an event it vanishes from your
newswire -- if you could create an events RSS feed then we could use
this to remove Bristol events from the newswire and look at putting all
the event listing items into a UK events box.

All the best

Chris