Compiling Resources at Threadwatch

I think its a great idea Nick.

Peer reviewed resources so to speak, thumbs up here.

Maybe some kind of comment thing could be applied for each resource even.

The snipped italicised comments could even link to the full quote perhaps?

Just a thought or 2.

Perhaps state up front some rules? eg. No self promotion, or no aff links, etc (unless you are fine with that) so it's only things people genuinely find valuable or worth discussing not their favourite loansviagracasinodatarecoveryisp ;O)

It would be helpful for people who aren't yet members of Threadwatch, if you did the tools especially one by one. That way the thread would rank in search results on the company or product name... so people looking for independent reviews from users will be able to find the thread.

It might be manageable and cleaner that way

I think a moderated Wiki would be a great idea.

Well done Tim for the Wiki idea and Nick for the resources :)

One of the weaknesses of WMW is that, in efforts to erradicate link droppping, all useful information on tools and software has been obliterated.

Its darned difficult to get a (unbiased) view on tools. Whether you will ever get members to post all is another matter, but a great step in the right direction.

Whether Nick has the time to keep on top of yet another task is another matter !!

A great step to building traffic to TW IMO.

I did think about a wiki, and am half way sold on the idea, the only problem is integrating it's member db with the drupal member db, it would seem silly to require 2 logins - keeping the logins alive between wiki and main site.

If someone can recommend a suitable wiki, and i can find someone skilled enough to do the integration, it's a great idea.

And yes, to all of the other points - all good common sense, seperate pages for seperate tools/services/lists etc, some ground rules, no aff links

What we need, is a genuinely helpful resource for all this stuff we all use, or might use, and i think TW could do that quite well - we've got the resources, and i'll make the time to manage it...

What about the drupal Wiki Module ?

This is a wiki module. It implements a filter that provides basic structured
text formatting. Basically, the conventions (and much of the code) are taken
from phpwiki.sf.net.

It's just wikitext - like bbcode :(

If you can't find a wiki script to suit you, I think a good directory script would do. Use one that has a membership option. Reviews of the resources listed could be posted as comments.

If a product was recommended, and it had an affiliate program, maybe Nick should sign up. Then, provide two links to the product, a regular link and an affiliate link, and let users decide which one they prefer to click. Could that be a way to support TW while maintaining credible levels of objectivity?

I think i'd rather give that a miss elisabeth, it's just too much hassle, and besides, if the value of TW is increased with some good permenant content, the advertisers will be happy :)

Im just working on our first sponsored post now actually, and it's a belter!

Brad, i think drupal has a directory module, worth looking into, but i think structure can be done with normal posts just as easily if i can't get a wiki together..

I would say the more integration with tw the better so I would actually vote against the wiki idea for ease of implementation. A new category with 1 thread per product would seem the way to go IMO at least at first

Yes, and periodically weed the comments (make it clear that will happen)

I think that would have to be the plan chris, barring anyone offering some affordable programing to get the wiki integrated...

I would take a serious look at the directory module which may make it easier for users to find stuff down the road.

I love the idea...

As we're on the subject of tw :)

Can anyone help me with a bit of regexp for google sitemaps?

I need to eliminate strings where the word "node" appears twice - like this: /node/234/node344/blah

they may differ slightly in where it appears, but node always appears twice in the string and i can't figure how to get rid of it.

I've tried:

node*node

and

*node*node*

but it no worky...

cheers

perhaps:

(.*(node)){2}.*

Thanks cluas, that did it...

Now i've just got to work out why the sitemap_gen.py script calls google to fetch the sitemap, but they ALSO want you to send an http request when you want them to fetch it... maybe they just havn't updated the docs...

Whilst i've got you claus, and don't go to any trouble unless it's easy..

/node/233

where 233 could be any numeric sequence - what if i want to catch *anything* that has something non numeric after the numbvers?

like

/node/234/edit
/node/3455343/

etc?

Thanks :)

Use "\d" for digit and "\D" for non-digit, ie:

\d equals [0-9]
\D equals [^0-9]

So:

.*(node/)\d+\D+

- or:

.*(node/)[0-9]+[^0-9]+

At least one of them should work. Here's a Cheat Sheet

Thanks claus!

I'll give it a go...