[Imc-aotearoa-ed] [john@eclectic.org.nz: Feature Mangling]

[finn c.]

Hi,

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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:50:51 +1200
From: John 
To: "finn c." 
Subject: Feature Mangling
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Hi,

I was trying to promote the article as a feature.  I tried to edit the 
feature so that only the first 2 paragraphs were visible - as the 
feature is now currently.  Unfortunately I deleted the text also from 
the feature along with the photos. I then resubmitted the article and 
linked the feature through to that one.  I thought I deleted the 
comments permanently, and was going to let people know soon.  I had 
become a little obsessed about writing the article today.

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Eek, well not to worry this kinda stuff is easy to do. I've gone
rethreaded the comments on the feature to the new article [editors con't
do this btw, you need access to the database itself].

It's pretty hard to delete stuff permanently, the only way is if you go
to 'delete' and then hit 'purge'. 

So the process is:

* go to 'article options'
* click 'Make this a feature'
* click edit and alter away. The summary appears on the front page, the
  body is what you get after you click the 'read more'.
* an email will be sent out to ed's with email addresses
* other ed's can vote, you can vote once 24 hours have passed [this is a
  bit of a hack, the idea is that 3 ed's need to approve of a feature,
  but it only requires 2 once 24 hours has passed]. 
* If the feature appears a somewhere in the middle of the front page,
  you can promote it to the top by hitting 'update timestamp' [i
  actually forget the exact wording].

seeya,
finn

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