Research Report: Drupal

[almostnever.livejournal.com]

I've put together an overview of Drupal features to help us consider its possible use for the archive project. If you have any experience with Drupal, or more information about it, please pipe up in the comments! That definitely includes any reservations that you may have. We're still in the fact-finding stage.

Overall: Drupal would give us several of the familiar features we enjoy on Livejournal, while also offering a content management system that's more conducive to organizing a fic archive, like sitewide categories, sitewide search, collaborative writing features that auto-generate their own navigation and table of contents, and author update tracking.

Drupal is open source and free, written in PHP. It's used by high-traffic sites like The Onion, Ain't It Cool News, and the Sugar Publishing Network. You can get more of an overview from its Wikipedia entry or visit Drupal.org for comprehensive information.

( Research Report: Drupal )

I hope this information's helpful. If you have any info about Drupal, pro or con, please share it in the comments! The more we know about all the options available to us, the more likely that we'll be able to eventually make the best choice. I'll update the body of the post with any further information that comes up in the comments.

( Info from the comments! )

Proposed list of tags:fanarchive

[norah.livejournal.com]

A few days late - sorry, new job, hectic week. I tried to keep this concise and yet cover everything I could think of that might crop up. I've set it up to follow the two- or three-tier system that thefourthvine and I use in our sidebars, created by murklins. If a one-tier system is more desirable I can re-think this. The main categories are archives, fanarchive, features, and planning.

In the meantime, comments? Additions? Questions? Deletions? Have at!

archives:audience & community (suggested change: archives:users and community)
archives:history
archives:legal issues
archives:meta
archives:other archives
fanarchive:admin
fanarchive:weekly summaries
features:discussion
features:suggestions
(alternatively, the prior two could be subsets of "planning")
planning:coding
planning:design
planning:funding
planning:issues
planning:moderation
planning:people & volunteering
planning:resources & maintenance
planning:tools and software
planning:universal access

Questions thus far: do we need a "content" tag? If so, where might it go (under archives, planning, etc.)? Should universal access be under "planning"? Should "archives" be plural?

Thank you!

[amireal.livejournal.com]

fanarchive was just gifted with 12 months paid time by anonymous donor. Thank you anon donor!

(I am currently using the !mod tag just for reference, it can be unilaterally changed later when the official mod tag is unveiled.)