[Imc-web] featured announcements

[Josh King]

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We've got a few different options for the feed. We could exempt sticky
items, or all stories tagged as events. However, that would keep people
who follow our RSS feed from ever seeing those things. Probably the best
option in the long term would be to create an additional RSS feed at a
different URL that filters out events and/or stickies and ask IMC-US to
follow that.

You can find reference to "Sticky at Top of Lists" in two places. One is
under 'Publishing options' near the bottom of the page when you're
creating a story (if you're logged in as an editor when you're creating
it). The other is in the content editing interface, which I think is
what Mike is talking about, at
http://ucimc.org/admin/content/node/overview where there's a dropdown
menu under 'Update options.'

Sticky is used in some lists of content to keep important content at the
top of the list despite the normal sort order. In the case of our site,
it would keep a featured article at the top of the list of features when
the normal addition of newer articles would normally push it down the
list. I believe only featured articles can be sticky in the place that
Mike is referring to, so I don't think sticky articles are exempt from
the feed.

Does that make sense?

On 02/09/2010 08:23 PM, Brian Dolinar wrote:
> Where is the button for "Update Options" or "Manage Content"?
> Otherwise I can to to US IMC and hide our features.
> 
> BD
> 
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> Brian and Carly,
>> This is one of the Update Options available for articles in Manage Content.
>> This pulls an item from the Newswires and pulls it to the center of the
>> page. Instead of making it a Feature, it puts it at the top of the Features
>> column. I don't believe that they syndicate in that position; at least they
>> didn't in the past. This would solve the problem of making local events more
>> visible, without syndicating them to US IMC, for instance.
>> Mike
>>
>> Brian Dolinar wrote:
>>
>>> Can somebody tell me what a sticky is?
>>>
>>> BD
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net<mailto:
>>> rebelmike at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    I share your concern about things syndicating to US IMC. It
>>>    doesn't look good over there.
>>>
>>>    Another option is to use the sticky. I'm not sure what this does
>>>    to syndication, but give it a try and see how it acts.
>>>
>>>    Yes, it's been some time since anyone has used proper procedure in
>>>    making a Feature. There's no need for pre-approval, unless it's
>>>    something you feel uncertain about. You should send a note after
>>>    having done so to this list, with a link to the specific story you
>>>    made a feature, just to document things. That's all there is to it.
>>>
>>>    I've just been sitting back and letting you kids go at it, but
>>>    maybe I should complain? 8-)
>>>    Mike Lehman
>>>
>>>    Brian Dolinar wrote:
>>>
>>>        I featured Katy's Duke of Uke announcement because she asked
>>>        nicely.
>>>        And Carly just featured her own announcement about workshops.
>>>        Can we revisit our policy on featuring announcements?
>>>        We don't typically do this unless it's a big ucimc event.
>>>        My main concern is that our features get syndicated at
>>>        http://indymedia.us
>>>
>>>        What do folks think?
>>>        We've also been featuring things without any editorial decisions.
>>>        Don't know who is staying up on web pg editing these days.
>>>
>>>        BD
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