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You should probably use the ticketing system now:	I was wondering if the Clubs category should be renamed Nightclubs, or if it's unlikely that any other sort of club will appear. :) --[[Art]]
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* [http://dev.openguides.org/query?component=oxford.openguides.org Existing tickets] * [http://dev.openguides.org/newticket?component=oxford.openguides.org New tickets]
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The RSS feed for recent changes seems to be invalid, according to [http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ox.compsoc.net%2Foxfordguide%2F%3Faction%3Drss this feed validator]. Apparently it's being served with the wrong Content-Type and there's confusion as to its encoding. I believe this may be causing [http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=305929 this problem with LiveJournal syndication] - [[PerfDave]]	James: Would it be possible to alter the long/lat display from the decimal representation to the more usual degrees and minutes representation? Streetmap appears to use this representation.
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See http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/28 --[[Dom]]	* This is a preferences option in OpenGuides 0.16, which I hope to release today. Thanks for the suggestion. --[[Kake]]
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Can we get the edit form to insist that the user includes a comment describing their change? I keep forgetting to include something in this field. - [[PerfDave]]	James: My spelling is bad I know. Is it possible to add some sort of spell check? Even if it's just a list of mispelled words so I can go back and re-edit the entry?
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See http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/12 --[[Dom]]	* Not my itch; patches welcome :) --[[Kake]]
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Should new [[Comments]] be added to the top or the bottom of this page? - [[PerfDave]]	Dom: Perhaps we need specific metadata entries for URLs to other guides/reviews?
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Pass. It's ugly and I'd rather we either used the mailing list or the ticketing system :) --[[Dom]]	* Could do, yes — I mainly worry about making the edit form overcomplex and huge. But this is something the RDF people are interested in, so I'll probably add it. --[[Kake]]
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Should Colleges be in [[Category The University]]? --[[Dom]]
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Square brackets around links to external pages look ugly. Is there any chance of preventing them from being displayed? -- [[James]]	James: How about offering the wanted pages ordered by the number of times they are wanted as well as by alphabetical ordering?
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* Not that I know of. I actually disagree in any case; it's a useful way of distinguishing between internal and external links, so I'd rather the convention was kept. --[[Dom]]	* Oh, nice idea. That'll require a patch to CGI::Wiki, so I'll have a think about it. --[[Kake]]
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* Couldn't that be done within the stylesheet? --[[James]] * Stylesheet sounds like the best plan. I'll look into it unless someone else does first. --[[Kake]] See http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/38 --[[Dom]]
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I was wondering if the Clubs category should be renamed Nightclubs, or if it's unlikely that any other sort of club will appear. :) --[[Art]]	James: Can the pages please be validatable HTML of some form or another? I'm trying to write a suitable stylesheet and it would make life a little easier, it's just a few loose </P> tags I believe. Should the <div id="... be <div class="... ?
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* It's true that Clubs is potentially confusing as it could be used to mean University type clubs (ie societies). --[[Dom]]	* Can you make me a list of the specific places where things need changing? Also, 'id' is a valid attribute for the 'div' element - it's for things that you only expect there to be one of. http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/structure.html might be of help. --[[Kake]]
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----	* I think the problem is that <hr /> and <<form> ... </form> aren't valid inside paragraph tags, you can spot this on most of the pages as far as I can tell. I could be wrong, but I think that's it. Thanks for the info about the id attribute, that cleared things up for me. -- [[James]]
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James: My spelling is bad I know. Is it possible to add some sort of spell check? Even if it's just a list of mispelled words so I can go back and re-edit the entry? * Not my itch; patches welcome :) --[[Kake]] See http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/39 --[[Dom]]
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Dom: Perhaps we need specific metadata entries for URLs to other guides/reviews?	James: Is it nessecary to provide both a map link and the OS co-ordinates? In the current situation if streetmap etc. make a slight change to the formatting of their URL this means that every entry needs to be manually corrected, whereas if we generated the map URL from the coordinates (streetmap provide instructions at [http://www.streetmap.co.uk/linkto.htm]) only a single change would be needed to the code.
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* Could do, yes — I mainly worry about making the edit form overcomplex and huge. But this is something the RDF people are interested in, so I'll probably add it. --[[Kake]]	* The problem is that Streetmap have been known to be arsey in the past about software that automatically generates links to them. However, it was slightly more complicated in this particular case because the software itself was doing lookups to streetmap. The fun starts [http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20030203/016588.html on the london.pm mailing list]. Personally I'd be happy with doing a simple conversion as documented on their own site (I didn't notice that page before) but if Kake isn't happy with it this'll require me or someone else to maintain a patch to OpenGuides and this will need some time spent to familiarise myself with the codebase. --[[Dom]]
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See http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/40 --[[Dom]]	* I'm not sure how using their advertised method to generate the URL is any different (from streetmap's point of view) than having manually generated URLS linked to them. IMHO, it ''should'' be okay. The london.pm case appears to be slightly different as they were actively accessing streetmap systems to generate the information. [[James]]
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----	* I've now added this to the Oxford installation. If a map link has been supplied, this will be linked; if not, and complete location data has been supplied, one will automatically be generated using the specification at [[http://www.streetmap.co.uk/linkto.htm#gridreference]]. Patch submitted to Kake for inclusion; also available as [[http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~dom/OpenGuides-automaplink.patch]] temporarily.
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James: How about offering the wanted pages ordered by the number of times they are wanted as well as by alphabetical ordering? * Oh, nice idea. That'll require a patch to CGI::Wiki, so I'll have a think about it. --[[Kake]] * Might also be nice to replicate [[Wanted Nodes]] as a special case in OpenGuides. --[[Dom]] * Replicate how? --[[Kake]] * I explained myself badly. What I mean is that Wanted Nodes should be a "special" page in OpenGuides, such that it is a place people can submit names of things they want to be added to the guide, and it would be automatically included in the Wanted Pages page, and automatically deleted from both pages when the node exists. In fact, it's probably not that important to even have a list of the pages people have "manually" requested; it would just be a case of having a special case for the "backlink". I hope that makes slightly more sense. --[[Dom]]
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Information about businesses etc needs a "last checked" field. Otherwise people won't know how reliable it is - this will particularly be a problem for the opening hours and (less so) phone numbers, from experience with another system that records this kind of information. --[[Ganesh]]
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See http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/1 --[[Dom]] ----
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I was wondering if the Clubs category should be renamed Nightclubs, or if it's unlikely that any other sort of club will appear. :) --Art

James: Would it be possible to alter the long/lat display from the decimal representation to the more usual degrees and minutes representation? Streetmap appears to use this representation.

This is a preferences option in OpenGuides 0.16, which I hope to release today. Thanks for the suggestion. --Kake

James: My spelling is bad I know. Is it possible to add some sort of spell check? Even if it's just a list of mispelled words so I can go back and re-edit the entry?

Not my itch; patches welcome :) --Kake

Dom: Perhaps we need specific metadata entries for URLs to other guides/reviews?

Could do, yes — I mainly worry about making the edit form overcomplex and huge. But this is something the RDF people are interested in, so I'll probably add it. --Kake

James: How about offering the wanted pages ordered by the number of times they are wanted as well as by alphabetical ordering?

Oh, nice idea. That'll require a patch to CGI::Wiki, so I'll have a think about it. --Kake

James: Can the pages please be validatable HTML of some form or another? I'm trying to write a suitable stylesheet and it would make life a little easier, it's just a few loose </P> tags I believe. Should the <div id="... be <div class="... ?

Can you make me a list of the specific places where things need changing? Also, 'id' is a valid attribute for the 'div' element - it's for things that you only expect there to be one of. http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/structure.html might be of help. --Kake

I think the problem is that <hr /> and <<form> ... </form> aren't valid inside paragraph tags, you can spot this on most of the pages as far as I can tell. I could be wrong, but I think that's it. Thanks for the info about the id attribute, that cleared things up for me. -- James

James: Is it nessecary to provide both a map link and the OS co-ordinates? In the current situation if streetmap etc. make a slight change to the formatting of their URL this means that every entry needs to be manually corrected, whereas if we generated the map URL from the coordinates (streetmap provide instructions at http://www.streetmap.co.uk/linkto.htm) only a single change would be needed to the code.

The problem is that Streetmap have been known to be arsey in the past about software that automatically generates links to them. However, it was slightly more complicated in this particular case because the software itself was doing lookups to streetmap. The fun starts on the london.pm mailing list. Personally I'd be happy with doing a simple conversion as documented on their own site (I didn't notice that page before) but if Kake isn't happy with it this'll require me or someone else to maintain a patch to OpenGuides and this will need some time spent to familiarise myself with the codebase. --Dom

I'm not sure how using their advertised method to generate the URL is any different (from streetmap's point of view) than having manually generated URLS linked to them. IMHO, it should be okay. The london.pm case appears to be slightly different as they were actively accessing streetmap systems to generate the information. James

I've now added this to the Oxford installation. If a map link has been supplied, this will be linked; if not, and complete location data has been supplied, one will automatically be generated using the specification at [Patch submitted to Kake for inclusion; also available as [[http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~dom/OpenGuides-automaplink.patch] temporarily.