Hello all,
When I started working on this, I was under the impression that the
nominations last year were done via the Yahoo! Group, and therefore
completely open to view. (In fact, I just went and looked at a few.)
Therefore, I actually put the name of the nominator in easy view on the
system. If the new system wasn't available, there would be no
possibility of anonymous nominations, and I can't see why they should
be anonymous.
I can remove the nominator's name from the story's infobox, and if
necessary, I can add an 'anonymous' option, but I'd prefer not, since
there are only about 2 weeks to go before we are supposed to launch
this puppy, and I don't think it should be anonymous in any case.
I've been reading the multiple-author categorization comments as well.
I agree that the authors should confer. I'll tailor the 'author
notification email' to suit, but may need some suggestions. I figure if
they can't agree on categorization, they probably won't give permission
to enter anyway, so it's probably not a big issue.
BTW, the demo site is back online at
http://holder.dyndns.org/ctpro
I've updated it with all my recent changes, but I had to delete the
database, thus eliminating all your funny nominations.
For several reasons, I have decided not to have the system
automatically send emails. Instead, it will create webpages with all
the information ready to send in an email, which an Author Liaison can
copy/paste and send to an author. Please login as Liaison1/Liaison1 or
Liaison2/Liaison2 (user/pass), and click on the 'Author Liaison' link
at the top of the page to see what the author Liaisons can do. They can
withdraw a story, if the author requests. When the nomination data is
complete, they can check the 'complete' box with the story data, and
get rid of the big red 'Nomination Incomplete' note. There is a link to
the author notification email next to each story. For multiple stories,
the liaison can just copy/paste the appropriate sections from each
story into one email, if desired. There's a place in the story data
form for the liaison to take notes (e.g., 'sent author a notification
email about this story on 4/1/05'), and to copy any permission emails
from the author.
The email is not finished yet, but gives you a flavor for how it will
work. I plan to include all the story data that we're asking for in the
email, so the author can see it, and has the choice to reply and edit
the email or to login to the system and edit there.
Author Liaisons are assigned randomly, but always stick with the same
author. It's easier than trying to keep a list of letters for each
liaison.
To login as anyone else, login as admin/nimda, go to the users list
(near the bottom), and choose 'login as' on the right hand side. You
can even create yourself a regular user from admin. You can also see
what sorts of things the admin can see/do, including editing category
names, changing dates, and other fun stuff. We'll set a real admin
username/password before we kick things off!
I still have plenty of work to do, but it's pretty close. There are
still some rough edges, but its mostly cosmetic. I think that the
functionality is pretty much there. I may leave some cosmetic problems
until after kickoff, if necessary.
Anthony