LC Peer Review Mechanism

Submitted by Neil Blazevic on April 12, 2008 - 12:38pm.

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I've been doing some writing on a topic of local interest I might try to get published in an appropriate venue. While I was writing it, it occurred to me that it could benefit from some peer review, not specifically for editing but for factual errors and inconsistencies, reccomendations for additions, and other responses. There are lots of areas this might be useful for LC members when the content is intended to reach a wider audience. How could something like this be done on London Commons? I'm thinking of the Google Docs technology where invited people can make wiki-like edits or add comments to a document. Perhaps we could use Google Docs and use LC posts as a way to invite review. Or does the technology already exist on Drupal?

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Sounds good. I'll try

Submitted by Neil Blazevic on April 14, 2008 - 9:55am.

Sounds good. I'll try putting something up as a book page shortly to see how that works.

book pages, collaboration in groups

Submitted by Jeremy McNaughton on April 13, 2008 - 6:19am.

Mike is right, book pages are designed for exactly this. They also allow a document to be broken up into "child pages" and have a printer friendly view. Right now we're using books for the website's help pages, LC policies, the ethical business directory and the links directory. We could make a new peer review/collaborative writing book for pages that can be edited by any member of the site.

Currently book pages don't work inside groups. They might in the near future, but right now the alternative is using the admin role for groups. Group admins can edit any piece of content in their group. This allows group members to collaboratively work on blogs, images, audio, recipes, even events on the group calendar.

Groups are also useful if you want to keep your content private while you work on it. When something is posted to a group, it can only be seen by group members until it is marked as public.

Anyone can create a new group by using the "Start a group" option under the Organize menu.

There's a new feature that I'm researching right now to put in a proposal. It's a pemissions tab for every piece of content you've created. Clicking on the tab would allow the original author to select who is allowed to do what with the content. For example one could post an audio track that is only visible to 1 or 2 people, or a recipe that anyone can see, but some friends are also allowed to edit.

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Submitted by Trev McNaughton (not verified) on April 13, 2008 - 12:12am.

the revisions function of the site allows you to see all the edits made to content nodes and revert back to previous versions.

however, its hard to compare between 2 edits. I've used an enhanced version for another system based off drupal, that would make it easier for comparison, which would help for community based editing. it simply lets you choose between two revisions and will show only the lines that were edited and what was changed. Its the same way coders use a "diff" file for making patches.

I will suggest it to the guys on the dev team and show them how to do it.

\x69 \x20 \x61 \x6d \x20 \x31 \x33 \x33 \x37

Book pages?

Submitted by Mike McGregor on April 12, 2008 - 12:55pm.

Have you taken a look at the Book Pages yet? They may be what you're looking for. Anyone can edit a book on the LC. If you want only invited people to edit it, maybe it could be placed within a group that's by invite only(?). Comment can also be left for book pages in the same way their left for other content on the site.

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