User talk:Brian McNeil/wikinewsie To-do

Reporters' wiki

 * 1) Full lockdown
 * 2) Whitelist Special:UserLogout – ✅ — μ 14:43, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) Edit name to 'Reporters' Wiki' (currently missing space) – ✅, name is now "Reporters' Workspace", metaspace is now "Workspace" — μ 14:43, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 4) Copyright/confidentiality notice
 * 5) Customise navigation menu
 * Hide all but essential if not logged in – ✅ — μ 10:28, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Tweak skin
 * 2) Smaller search box, single button per enWN
 * 3) Smaller L1 headings
 * 4) Custom logo
 * 5) Favicon
 * 6) Custom css
 * Public: now has a different background colour to differentiate from secure namespaces; there's now an editnotice warning users of the consequences of screwing up in Public-space. — μ 21:48, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Graphics in img.wikinewsie.org
 * 2) Restrict user creation to wikinewsie 'crats –✅ — μ 10:28, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) Match some of the navigation items with the web home menu (to be discussed).
 * 4) Initial population of Public:Information (a landing/starting page linking to main sections within the Public: namespace.)
 * 5) Initial population of Public:FoI (i.e. brief desc of Freedom of Information legislation, links to English-language pages on such)
 * 6) Sub-pages/navigation pages for Public:FoI (eg Public:FoI/United States, Public:FoI/Law Enforcement,...)
 * 7) New Namespace Rolodex: for non-public contact information collected by accredited reporters – ✅ — μ 20:15, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 8) A-index to Z-index pages.
 * 9) Navigational templates
 * Must include links to quickly add entries, and to create corresponding pages.
 * 1) Communication log (Rolodex talk) - use Correpondence: for NS name.  – ✅ — μ 20:15, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 2) Set $wgBlockDisablesLogin = true; – ✅ — μ 20:15, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Editors' blog

 * 1) Selection of a skin appropriate for common look-n-feel with rest of Wikinewsie, and Wikinews-themed.
 * 2) Tweaks of skin to match site.

Code

 * 1) Ascertain location/directory structure for the LimeSurvey database.
 * 2) Independent Wikinewsie Reporters' Workspace ftp user.
 * 3) Reset bawolff ftp pass.
 * 4) Create a "general"/site-management dB.
 * 5) Rejig inline .php scraper to run on cron, and to populate the site mgmt dB.
 * 6) Create table(s) in site dB to populate with "leads" for Original Reporting FAs.
 * 7) Code front-page slideshow of FAs.
 * 8) Add RSS for Editors' blog; push data to shared database.
 * 9) Code main page of site to display shared enWN latest, editors' blog RSS/Atom feeds.
 * 1) Create table(s) in site dB to populate with "leads" for Original Reporting FAs.
 * 2) Code front-page slideshow of FAs.
 * 3) Add RSS for Editors' blog; push data to shared database.
 * 4) Code main page of site to display shared enWN latest, editors' blog RSS/Atom feeds.

General

 * 1) Fix 404s. ✅
 * 2) Optimise performance by using http://img.wikinewsie.org for static images within the wiki, static content through http://static.wikinewsie.org
 * 3) /me notes that's probably not a bottle neck given the number of hits the site gets (and doing that might not make it all that faster, since they're both hosted from the same server).  There are many other things to consider optimizing that will have much better gains if we encounter performance issues. Bawolff ☺☻ 20:22, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 4) * This is not to optimise performance server-side. Yes, it would allow such at a future point. However, it tends to have an impact client-side in that a browser will see different domains and send more parallel requests where it might otherwise queue requests if all to the same hostname. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:28, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, that makes much more sense. Bawolff ☺☻ 20:30, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * You don't get as much grey in your beard as me without learning a trick or two. ;-) --Brian McNeil / talk 21:29, 10 February 2011 (UTC)


 * 1) Write map of wikinewsie hosting/site.
 * 2) Would it be cheeky to ask for FTP access again? [[File:Knipoog.gif]]— μ 21:32, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * What part you need at? I'll be on IRC once I'm in the house. On bus at the moment. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:36, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I currently have access to limesurvey, which I'm uploading as I type. It would be useful to have access to the MediaWiki installation in my own right – I've installed a few extensions and settings, I'm happy to continue. By the way, Dendodge raised a concern that "original.wikinewsie.org" was a pretty long domain name, and was wondering why it wasn't just "wikinewsie.org/wiki". — μ 21:51, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Four characters difference; and, as a sub-domain there's more flexibility. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:52, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Anything else?
Feel free to add additional suggestions on how the site should be set up; any additional tools that would be useful; tweaks to the appearance, and so on. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:39, 12 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Additional screenshots for other mail clients would be most useful. At present, only Evolution on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is given.