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hello
something I wish, and I hope someone could help (see also other forum subject aboiutr editors):
1. detailed info script for single user (easy to use for linking to editors within a category)
2. mod for showing links that are added/modified by an editor in the detailed info page

Who can help me with this ????




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yup. No 2 is so so so so so essential. Each action by an editor should be logged with an easy button press to reverse whatever the editor did. This is really an essential feature unless you completly trust your editors and then if you did that they might as well be admins.

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The reversing what editors did is something akin to financial applications -- ie: audit trails.

This gets very complicated.

It might be easy to "munge" the "change" into a database record, similar to a text editor undo. It wouldn't allow for 1 click undo, but it would allow recovery or auditing if necessary.

PUGDOGŪ
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well even if we couldn't do one click undo the storing of the orginial and the end would mean it could be manually changed.

This would mean that for an edit it would look something like:

Edit Link ID43 then list the before and after.

Really Alex should explore dmoz.com a bit if he hastn't, they obviously have the best editor features avaliable and a lot should really be added in here! (as time permits!)

Without this logging of action by editors the whole feature can't be well used as you can't keep track on what your editors are doing!

http://www.ASciFi.com/ - The Science Fiction Portal
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this is a category editing log:

http://dmoz.org/editors/logs.cgi?cat=Computers/Emulators/Targets/Acorn_Archimedes

and this is a specific link log

http://dmoz.org/editors/logs.cgi?cat=Computers/Emulators/Targets/Acorn_Archimedes&time=970255599&file=.sites/topcities.com%Computers%arcsupport

i am not sure if you can see these without being a dmoz editor or not....

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I am actually a DMOZ editor!

I signed up a few months ago and they accepted me.

Unfortunately I lost my login details almost immediately so never went back....eeek.

Paul Wilson. Shocked
(Dont blame me if I'm wrong!)
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oops you need to be an editor to see those pages, sorry 'bout that.

I do really hope someone at gossamer is an editor so they can see how it all works and how to improve the editor functions. Thanks

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I used to be an editor, but looks like they finally cancelled my ids.

Following DMOZ's lead is not always good. I quit because of the old joke "A camal is a horse designed by a comittee" and "A elephant is a horse built to government specs."

Anyway, DMOZ has certain needs that are met by consensus. Your own links site doesn't have those consensus problems. Do what you want. The code/tools are there. It's just a matter of putting them together.

If some sort of functionality is missing in the libraries, define/describe it, and maybe it can be built in, so you can build with it.

PUGDOGŪ
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oh i understand what you mean but sometimes when a directory becomes diverse there is no way that one person or even a team can do everything - something like area, sci-fi which is really a collection of very niche subjects having a "specalist" in each niche works well.

I have tried to give a few suggestions and the logging is probably the most important.

Still dmoz.com i think works really well, as far as human maintained directories go i don't think anything beats it, yahoo really pales in comparison and i now hardly ever go there. The only sites that generally seem to have more and decent links are individual niche directories like what all of us here are building.

I just hope that the editor function of linksSQL is taken seriously by gossamer, it is one of the main reasons i bought the software and currently is the only directory script that has the capability - i just hope a great start can be expanded upon over time, it would be something very hard to mod in by a user (well i am sure you could do it pugdog! but you don't count as the average user!!!!).

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i don't think anything beats it...
I beg to differ...I am a member of the WWWVL (www.vlib.org), the oldest and truly human maintained directory...founded by Tim Berners Lee, the father of HTML.

Regards,

Eliot Lee
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istn't vlib just a collection of links to about 500 directory type sites (ie niche links or other script generating sites). It is nice i guess in that sense for finding these sites but not really much more than that is it? If i wanted to find a site on dvd reviews on uk region 2 players or inflation rates in the uk i doubt that would be the best place to start.

Does it spider all the links from all the sites it links to?

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