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Re: Non-member FTX pages
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Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:51:36 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, James Brown writes:
Here's a suggestion; I don't know how feasable it is:

Allow group curators to make FTX pages hosted on Lugnet that aren't
necessarily tied to their membership (if they're members), limited to their
area of curatorship(1).

(ex if Larry went to http://www.lugnet.com/trains/articles he would see the
"start this page?" button, but not if he went to
http://www.lugnet.com/castle/articles )

This would allow the local posting of content that is useful but hosted
somewhere transient or useful things that are too bulky for the main page.
I thinking about things like Frank Filz's lists of Pirate links, or a single
jump point for the trains.com articles about Lego, or "reprints" of highly
informative messages that might otherwise fade from visibility.

Good idea, bad idea?

I think it *must* be a good idea because I think it already works that way.
When I went to the train URL you gave I got a "start this page" FTX button,
but when I went to the castle URL you gave I got nothing, just the "this
isn't a page" page.

Cool. :)

I didn't actually start putting any content into the example because I am
not sure I am ready to take on that much editorship, but I may move the
links stuff off the front page of trains. Dunno.

Tangentially:

In general I am not sure I want to see yet another place to keep links, they
are too transient and there are too many of them. I'd rather give a few good
links and some links to places where OTHERS keep links. So that leans
towards not moving links off the front.. it incents me to keep it short. I
just added Jake's page but may well rotate those around to keep them fresh.

Ya.  I wasn't thinking links so much (except in the case of moving something
like Frank's list(s), which are culled from Lugnet postings) as I was
thinking of other resources that would be good to have commonly sourced, for
example:

(quick & dirty FTX warning:)

http://www.lugnet.com/trains/org/~11/

Or if someone wrote something along the lines of Gary Istok's history of
windows, the article(s) and updates could be transcluded into an FTX page so
that it hasn't sunk into obscurity after a few months/years.


thanks,

James



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  Re: Non-member FTX pages
 
(...) I think it *must* be a good idea because I think it already works that way. When I went to the train URL you gave I got a "start this page" FTX button, but when I went to the castle URL you gave I got nothing, just the "this isn't a page" (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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