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Moderation for IMC UK on Mir

"Moderation" means "cleaning the newswire", promoting or demoting articles between various article-types, creating and changing features/static pages. These tasks can be done through the admin 'start page'. There have been many huge discussions about what to moderate, some of which have been documented on the UkModerationDiscussion page. Current guidlines can be found at UkModeration, however, there is still huge debate and the best advice is probably that one should be prepared to _un_hide stuff if neccessary.

Mir Introduction

Info to Help Use of Mir. Essential background, to help Mir Users, Administrators.

Feature Tutorial

How to make a Feature, set by step instructions, hints and suggestions

Newswire Tutorial

Cleaning the newswire

How-To Moderate the newswire (Guidelines)

Basic HTML Tutorial

Introduction to using HTML for those marking up articles and features.

Uploading Images

How to guide for uploading and using images using Mir Admin pages

Resizing images

Until we have an automatic resizing script in our Mir installation, the following is the recommended method for resizing large images:

1. Inform irc that you are about to do this, otherwise somebody else might decide to do it and you'll end up duplicating work.
2. Download the images from the published article, putting them all into one single empty directory and making a note of any captions the images may have.
3. Run mogrify -resize 550 * in the images directory
4. Log into Mir admin and edit the post
5. Click upload image, and upload all the resized images, ensuring that published is ticked. Set the title to the original captions if there were any.
6. Go back to the article, and click edit next to each original image
7. untick published then hit save for each original image.

After following this, the original images will be left in admin but unpublished, should anybody need them. The published images however will all be a sensible size. Note that step 3 requires you to have imagemagick installed, which in Debian or Ubuntu is as simple as doing "aptitude install imagemagick". On other operating systems you may have other methods of resizing images.

Regional

Oxford Tutorial

Details changing their links page, calender, and has guidelines on features.

Regional Article Publishing

London e-mail describing publishing on a regional newswire

Older Guides and Tutorials

For Dummies

A concise intro to creating mid column features, explains how we use the servers. Used as the basis for UkMirIntroduction and UkMirFeatureTutorial.

Regional Admin Tutorial

Covers creating features, cleaning nw, uploading pictures

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UkModerationDiscussion for more on the process issues

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-- IonNec - 17 Jun 2003
-- IonNec - 30 Jun 2003 added link to admin tutorial and how-to on pics
-- IonNec - 25 Oct 2003 updated
-- IonNec - 29 Nov 2003 added "for dummies" (actually, this is the only document that explain how the servers work!)
-- WikiKes - 29 Nov 2003 refactored
-- GarconDuMonde - 11 Feb 2004 - added UkModerationDiscussion link and blurb -- GarconDuMonde - 23 Feb 2004 - added UkModeration link
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