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By David McCraw on
I'm looking for an off-the-shelf CMS for a writing community that has outgrown the homemade CMS w/ phpBB integration that we started on.
We have a somewhat complicated procedure at the moment which goes like this:
- If desired, user can present ideas for his story in 'Workshop' (a forum)
- First drafts go into a forum entitled 'Auditorium' for critique and advice
- The story iterates within the Auditorium until it is suitably polished
- The user submits his story to a moderation queue, after which it hopefully...
- ... enters the 'Core' - a custom CMS which presents stories by genre/subject/author/reads/rating/etc...
- Users may review the story with a score out of 10 and a short comment.
I can sort of see how this would translate to Drupal:
- The user creates a story node with his first draft.
- People comment and the story is revised until it is satisfactory
- Subject to moderation, the content of the story (not the comments) is copied into a new story node within the "Core" taxonomy (the original thread will become an archive in the 'work in progress' section)
- Users can now post short comments with a review score.
I have two main questions: can Drupal support the somewhat complex transition between #2 and #3 above, and is there some mechanism for users to rate content rather than just comment on it?
Thanks for your time.
Comments
Yes, I believe so
I think it is possible with a bit of process tweaking. You might use the "moderation votes" feature http://www.mydrupal.dom/admin/comment/configure/votes and I think you have seen the moderation queue system.
Also, there has been discussion about site karma as well, which might be interesting to mix into your idea: http://drupal.org/node/14175
In terms of taxonomy vocabularies, I'm just getting set up myself, but I spent a good week looking into that subject. Very interesting stuff - google for PMEST or BC2 for some ideas, but in my case, the articles I'd like contributors to post are categorized like this:
Subject
-- the topics we discuss, organized how I think is best suitable
Format
-- the form of the node - manual, faq etc
Attributes
-- tone - is the article analytical, political, ironic?
-- audience - is it for experienced people or beginners etc?
What I hear is that people don't often like to categorize their own content, so I put [Miscellaneous] categories to capture that, and, I imagine an editor in your case would need to go through and make sure the category is right.
Rick Cogley :: rick.cogley@esolia.co.jp
Tokyo, Japan
Node Moderation Module
Also the custom module node moderation may be of interest:
http://drupal.org/node/11170
Rick Cogley :: rick.cogley@esolia.co.jp
Tokyo, Japan