indymedia

I've made some modifications to the nmoderation module to allow for indymedia style moderation in drupal. It isn't ideologically 'nice' mainly due to the way parts of the drupal core are implemented. I have contacted the author of nmoderation about getting the patches into the module, but he hasn't responded, so we might want to look at forking it into a seperate moderation module - people's thoughts?

Instructions:
1) install drupal. 4.7.3 (or possibly a later 4.7 branch). I think CVS/4.8 changes a few fundamentals, so this is unlikely to work.

2) install the following modules: nmoderation, views, votingapi, taxonomy_block. You will want others for other IMC functionality; these are the ones you need for moderation and access of moderated content.

Given how unreliable docs.indymedia.org has been - maybe we should move some of the information over to this group.
Also it would give everyone here a chance to comment on the work done so far.

What does everyone else think ?

Regards,
Isaac
indymedia.org.nz

Hello fellow central Ohio drupal people. We are working on improving the Columbus Indymedia site which uses Drupal.
Indymedia is a global network of independent journalists that work together to provide people with access to the tools of the media.

The site we have set-up is using Drupal but there is some migration that could be done in terms of altering the workflow of items.
We hold to a standard of open publishing which allows anyone to post news but a lot of times its just people posting news articles from mainstream newspapers and we'd like to
have a way to be more of an almanac so that people can contribute facts/links and pieces to build stories vs. just writing articles and uploading images. The taxonomy and categorization of the site could use some help.

Installation:
The current version of Drupal is 4.7 as of this writing. It can be downloaded at drupal.org and installed on any server running PHP & MySQL with little problem. The installation process is well documented but there are a lot of variables involved in the configuration once you have it up. This document will mainly try to address these choices and present possibilities and examples from various IMCs.

Module Installation:
Once you have the core of Drupal installed you will probably want to install some modules. This is where the drupal experience can become quite confusing, exciting and time consuming. There are a wide variety of modules available for download from drupal.org, and many of them are constantly updating and adding features. Some of them duplicate functions and others hardly work. For an indymedia site to work we will want to enable a few of them at least in order to give multi-media functionality to the drupal site. Here are a few modules I'd recommend.