OpenContent – Basic Functionality
Basic Workflow Diagram, Click Below
What is it? OpenContent (OC) is an “Open News Platform” site where any contributors or users can submit “Original” news articles based on a category (mandatory): Local News, The World, Technology, Sports and Lifestyle.
Moderation of submitted articles is user-based, meaning other contributors and/or site users gets to approved, suggest revision, reject the submitted article before it gets published online on the site for the selected category.
A Contributor’s article, gets notified via email that the article have been approved and published online. User can opt-out from being notified from his Profile Settings.
What’s in a Published Article?
- 1. Contributors avatar/photo
- 2. Link to contributors profile
- 3. Contributors list of published articles.
- 4. Rating for this contributor from other contributors and/or users and the ability for other users to rate the article.
- 5. The Article.
- 6. Social sharing link (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
- 7. Report abuse link form base (jQuery)
- 8. Contact email link form base (jQuery)
- 9. Vote this! The “Vote this” link which will be on every articles is a way for the article to get pushed to the main Category section of the page.
- 10. All submitted article must be original. Copyrights and article content is solely owned by that Article Contributor and the site is remains solely a broker for publishing those articles.
What’s in “The Article”
- 1. Article Subject
- 2. Main article text
- 3. Photo or a Photo Gallery
- 4. Video
Contributors Profile Page
- 1. Personal Info – Avatar, Interest
- 2. If logged in, show WYSIWYG Editor with a Save Later and Publish Now buttons
- 3. If logged in, show pending articles for with 2 buttons, approve, revise (proof-read), reject from other contributors.
- 4. All Published articles with comment moderation, removal
- 5. All published articles can be edited
- 6. Edited published articles is removed from the published queue and re-submitted to the origina approvers with the edited text highlighted for re-approval and once approved will go back on the main site with an additional information: Edited on: (date)
- 7. All published articles can be removed only by 2 users: Submitter and Site Admin / Moderator
January 26, 2011 at 2:32 am
Hey I just realized that since I last read about this project it has already been used in the US. “Ushahidi” is used to map crime, and it was used in Kenya after a lot of crime after an electon and then again in Haiti after the earthquake. If we can implement it into the website, it would integrate and coincide beautifully with the news. Also, it would help highlight crime around Boston as well as have a network set up in the event of a disaster. This way the news site can be used for news stories AND statistics/ emergencies, etc. I read about it in the book MacroWikinomics. Site is Ushahidi.com and developer end of it is http://wiki.ushahidi.com/doku.php?id=developer. If we could work it in, it would probably end up getting a lot of attention, and go along with the news very well.
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