Multi-Part Articles (Serieses (sp?))
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By tech , Section Wishlist [] Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Often I have wanted to submit an article to K5 that was incomplete - Perhaps I wanted to document a project from start to finish, or I wanted to chronicle a set of events in real time that hadn't all yet occurred; and you really can't do it.
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As of right now, there are two ways to create a pseudo/multi-part article:
- Submit multiple stories.
- Upside: You can actually have a multi-part article without changes to existing Scoop.
- Downside: Moderation can easily disrupt the flow of the series - future editions are not likely to be posted. Also, even if they are, one article is given more 'play' - time at the top of the front page / section page - than single-part articles.
- Add comments to a single story, as the series progresses.
- Upside: Article does not get an unfair amount of play.
- Downside: Later parts of series get almost no play - no exposure - which makes the first part incomplete, and the later parts mostly pointless.
I have thought quite a bit on the different ways to implement this, and (from a policy perspective) the best way seems to be:
- Add 'This is a Multi-Part (Series) Article' checkbox to the 'Submit Story' dialog screens.
- Create a 'My Multi-Part Articles' box, which appears by preference, or automatically on author's main screen when they have open (see below) multi-part articles.
- Create a 'Close Series' checkbox on the 'Append to Multi-Part Article' dialog screens. After an article has been closed, it can no longer be appended to, and it will be removed from 'My Multi-Part Articles'.
- Create a new box, on by default, for 'Recently Updated Multi-Part Articles', or better, 'New Series Additions'. The box would show articles originally posted FP when viewing the front page; likewise it would only show stories posted to the specific current section when viewing a certain section. Hopefully the new box would give multi-part articles the proper amount of play.
- When a new article appears, it is somehow tagged with "This is only the beginning of a full series! Check back later for more editions" etc etc.
Not much to say in closing, except I leave it to discussion...
Regards,
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