Re: News - some proposals

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:48, Richard Huxton wrote:
> >> 1. Enclosing simple URLs or email addresses in [] makes them clickable.
> >> So, [dev@archonet.com] becomes a mailto: link, [http://www.archonet.com]
> >>   a http: link.
> >> Same to happen to "posted_by" if it's an email address.
> >
> > At one point I thought Devrim had already done this, but it doesn't seem
> > to work that way now, so we probably should make it happen. The only
> > question in my mind is why require the [] ?  We could look for any url /
> > email and just make it linkable.
>
> In case the regexp gets it wrong. For example, although it's technically
>   permitted to finish a URL on a . it's probably the end of a sentence.
>

Ok, just make sure to include some help text on the submission form so
submitters know what is expected.

> >> 5. Make sure story has useful text
> >> This might be helped by #5, but probably needs enforcing anyway. Again,
> >> see the example news story [1] where the summary is fine, but the story
> >> is empty.
> >
> > I don't quite understand how you are going to enforce this, but it sounds
> > good :-)
>
> Just don't approve the story. I'm not sure it's worth having an option
> to allow submitters to re-edit the item though. They can always email
> corrections if needs be.

Ah, I think the thing is we have pretty low standards for what is required for
a "full story"; ie. just pointing to the press release is ok (though
obviously better if it is linkified).  This is more of a procedural thing
though than a code thing.

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Robert Treat
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