thread for what editors are editing news articles for and why, so contributors can comment + see what's being done, and to help people get a feel for how tagging is used.
Oct 12 2006 15:20
Oct 12 2006 15:24
i just edited the peru news article for a typo (toxic for toxi)
Oct 13 2006 15:28
nicaragua abortion story -
a - it's fucked up
b - nica is in north america!
c - CAPITALS in title
Oct 13 2006 15:49
swissport - great story
- airports is all transport tag - other transport sub tags are rail, roads, shipping, docks
- exploitation is too vague, deleted
- added stansted cos have content already and airport stuff likely to continue to have lots of news...
- capitals in title
you know how to add pics Sorry? just find a good pic using google image or somethin (not BBC or AP or too copyrighted tho), save to your PC, then click Browse in img thing. it auto-resizes it for you.
Oct 13 2006 15:54
PCS -
- unions we use tags, they're not counted as groups
- work to rule + on-the-job action tags added
Oct 13 2006 16:06
thanks for sorting them out John, reckon I can register all that for next time.
the Nicaragua story was fucked up, can't imagine the mindset that reacts to a 9 yr old girl's rape/abortion like that.
Oct 13 2006 16:35
how's the council housing one? btw, if anyone can think of a way of upping the amount of content from participants on that, it'd be good.
Oct 13 2006 16:37
yup that's great, looks like you've got the hang of it!
i just added general tag "housing" as well, but meh, tagging's pretty subjective, there's no 100% right way. nice one 
Oct 13 2006 17:17
one more thing.
Generally if we get more than 3-4 articles on one day, we try to delay publishing the rest until the next morning/afternoon (or later that evening etc. etc.) - that way it keeps news ticking over every few hours, rather than all at once then nothing for a day or two. Obviously scoops/uptotheminute stuff doesn't count for that.
You should see scheduling options on the submissions form - if you don't, or it's not obvious how it works, then let us know and we'll sort it out.
Oct 13 2006 18:52
ok, will bear in mind.
Oct 13 2006 23:34
i've tried using that, not been able to get it to work...
Oct 14 2006 07:40
works fine for me. You just have to copy the date, and then modify it for the "publish on" bit.
Oct 14 2006 14:15
oaxaca piece - v cool.
we use uprisings tag so swapped for insurrection.
edited intro to say popular assembly rather than acronym.
Oct 14 2006 14:16
added "military and law enforcement tag".
Oct 14 2006 15:11
hmm yeah i wasn't sure about that... have been using more "repression" tag for stuff like that, military etc. more about stuff about workers in the sector (mutinies etc.)
joseph - we have NHS stuff under health not public sector; in lots of places healthcare's not in the public sector! like here soon...
Oct 14 2006 15:57
oops, i didn't see the category, despite knowing it was there :?
Oct 16 2006 08:21
catch - changed raytheon to manufacturing not military, cos they're not in the military...
Oct 16 2006 08:28
OK cool, I couldn't find anything for defense/arms industry so made a tag in the end, put it in military before I did that.
Oct 16 2006 10:01
hmmm weird, cos there is arms industry tag already:
http://libcom.org/tags/arms-industry
but yours has created new one :?
http://libcom.org/tags/arms-industry-0
Oct 16 2006 12:46
John. wrote:
hmmm weird, cos there is arms industry tag already:
http://libcom.org/tags/arms-industrybut yours has created new one :?
http://libcom.org/tags/arms-industry-0
i see what happened, was old tags "arms" which i deleted industry from. have brought it back tho.
Oct 16 2006 22:23
john posting -
rkn deleted military cos is duplicate tag
- added mutinies catch-all for non-obeying of orders, and refuseniks, added picture
- shortened intro to less than 3 lines.
Oct 19 2006 11:07
rkn, swapped education for schools, cos already edu+learning sector.
will remove repression too cos it wasn't that bad...
also was there a reason it was left in moderate? for others to check it?
Oct 19 2006 23:07
ret - swapped deaf for disability cos we have stuff already
catch - added refuse collection
news looking v good recently!!
Oct 21 2006 17:09
oaxaca
- caps in headline
- 9 -> nine
great to see news stories followed up on!
Oct 26 2006 03:04
pingtiao - cool shell story.
swapped tags occupations for community cos more descriptive, also removed tag AP - we don't tag the author if it's a press agency we've plagiarised!
added tag Shell cos they're a big company we have a bunch of stuff about. Otherwise neat.
Oct 26 2006 03:08
Sorry - bunch of cool stories but Capitalisation In Titles.
zobag - Workplace activity was for library 1st person accounts of stuff they've done at work, not news stories about strikes, etc. News is looking awesome by the way - good work everyone
think it will take a little while before views catch up with increased frequency of updates but it'll happen...
Oct 26 2006 15:00
John. wrote:
pingtiao - cool shell story.swapped tags occupations for community cos more descriptive, also removed tag AP - we don't tag the author if it's a press agency we've plagiarised!
There's an "AP" on the bottom as well...
Oct 26 2006 15:30
John. wrote:
b - nica is in north america!
Shitbags. I just made that mistake too. Is there a way of acessing submitted but not yet published news? Cos then I can edit it, then edit my post here, and then no one will know I thought Nicaragua was in South America.
Workplace activity tagging - oops sorry won't do it again!
Oct 26 2006 15:34
zobag wrote:
Shitbags. I just made that mistake too. Is there a way of acessing submitted but not yet published news?
admin >> content should do it.
Oct 26 2006 15:36
John. wrote:
pingtiao - cool shell story.swapped tags occupations for community cos more descriptive, also removed tag AP - we don't tag the author if it's a press agency we've plagiarised!
added tag Shell cos they're a big company we have a bunch of stuff about. Otherwise neat.
Cool- won't tag by agency again and will remove author at bottom- didn't know whether to create a shell tag as haven't submitted to the newswire before.
peru article
great article, but few things:
title - only proper nouns caps
sector - it's energy
tags - we decided we didn't want protests - already has demos, so deleted, demos is less important than occupations here, so deleted too. added key tag environment.
otherwise ace!