[Seattle-editorial] Promoting Features, work flow

[Gentry Lange]

Why all the weird textual anomalies TM sympobls, weird stuff? Is this
fixable?

Gentry

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The training on Saturday was useful to me, I hope it was useful to
everyone else.  Among other things it brought home some of the
difficulties of using Mir (which doesn't have the world's friendliest user
expirence).  One immediate fix we made was to add the admin link to the
top right corner of the page making it easier for people to login.

Something else I learned was a bit about how the editorial team would like
to operate.  I had a vision in my head of people choosing stories from the
newswire, fliping a switch, and having them show up in the center column.
What I found out is that what people *actually* want to do is:
  * find a strong story from the newswire
  * excerpt the first paragraph or so, perhaps with minor edits
  * link to the longer, original story for more info

(this is of course in addition to original content which gets written for
center column)

Would the editorial team describe this an accurate description of their
process?

Because we could probably make changes to facilitate that process if it
was going to be how people worked, but I want to make sure I captured
correctly people's work flow.

Thanks
Kellan


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"the truth is always revolutionary" [antonio gramsci]

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