From P2P Foundation

Contents 1 Social Publishing with Drupal 2 What's inside 2.1 Core system 2.1.1 Core Modules 2.1.2 Profiles and User Community 2.1.3 Wiki Tools 2.1.4 Posting Functions 2.1.5 Sharing and Interacting with the WWW 2.1.6 Utilities and Administration 2.1.7 Installation profile 2.2 Migration 2.2.1 Why Migrate? 2.3 How to Migrate 2.3.1 Migrate from Mediawiki 2.3.2 Migrate from Wordpress 2.3.3 Migrate from Ning to Drupal 3 More Information 3.1 Internal Links 3.2 External Links

Social Publishing with Drupal

Drupal is an extremely flexible Open Source content management system. It is a modular system design to be executed on a LAMP web server. As a modular system it capable of serving a variety of needs for organizations. This document will outline how to implement specific functions of Social Publishing using modules.

It is possible to migrate the P2P Foundation blog, wiki, and the Ning site to a single, central platform. Tools and notes for accomplishing this are listed at the bottom

There are a number of

What's inside

Core system

Drupal ships with a number of modules as part of its core system.

Core Modules, labeled core, and support modules for core modules where needed

Core Modules

• Content Construction Kit

Profiles and User Community

• Personal Dashboard
  • dashboard module
• Personal Profiles with custom questions
  • http://drupal.org/project/content_profile
• Javascript helper functions
  • jstools module for calendar popup
• WYSIWYG Editor
  • wysiwyg module
    • Support/sub modules and filters for wysiwyg

Wiki Tools

• Drupal can act like Mediawiki
  • http://drupal.org/project/wikitools
• You can use the same markup, too
  • http://drupal.org/project/flexifilter
• Create that nifty table of contents
  • http://drupal.org/project/tableofcontents
• Difs between versions, too
  • http://drupal.org/project/diff
• Use the same type of talk page
  • http://drupal.org/project/talk

Posting Functions

• Calendar and Events
  • date module
• Scheduled Publishing
  • scheduler module
• Groups
  • groups module for drupal 7

Sharing and Interacting with the WWW

• Stay in touch with the site using notification
  • notifications module
• RSS Feeds
  • feedburner module
• Feed Aggregator
  • feeds module
• Import from Blogger, Facebook, Foursquare, Google Reader, OStatus, Internal nodes, Twitter, YouTube
  • activitystream module
• Sharing of Pages to Delicious and Facebook
  • service links module
• Make Friends and be influenced
  • user relationships module

Utilities and Administration

• Views
  • views module
• Import a Wordpress site
  • http://drupal.org/project/wordpress_import
• Flag objectionable content, or build custom lists of favorite pages
  • flag
• Captcha
  • captcha module
    • Support/sub modules

Installation profile

• Open Publish
  • openpublish install profile
    • This is an excellent installation profile. It is resource hungry because of a multitude of user interface upgrades.
    • With the addition of the user relationships module this might be complete.

Migration

Why Migrate?

It is handy to have a system where there are multiple points of failure. What are the chances that they will all go down at once? Unfortunately this isn't the only concern with running web applications these days. Because the reasons for running applications differ by context, it's important to keep a close eye on what the goal of the organization is so that those goals are met. Looking at the mission of the P2P Foundation we see a need to:

• bring information together;
• connect people and mutually inform them
• strive for integrative insights coming from the many subfields;
• organize events for reflection and action;
• can educate people about critical and creative tools for world-making

With regards to the first three listed goals, these can be facilitated through a unified social framework better than they are currently through three different websites.

Benefits of a unified platform include:

• Lower administration costs for managing a single platform versus three platforms - in time and money
• Single system for administration - lowering the amount of information needed to be an administrator and the time needed for administration of the site
• Single sign on for users allowing them easy access to the site
• More cross linking because of the unity of the content base.
• More interaction between the blog, social network, and the wiki
• Easier sharing with remote sites. No need to install different technology on each site for the same purpose, like sharing on Facebook.
• Increased search engine traffic, with all content in one place, optimized, and longer visits for visitors with more pages to visit

Benefits for doing this with Drupal:

• Unified feeds based on categories, accomplishing the goal of subject/category channels
• Ability to bring in information through RSS Feeds directly into the site
• Customization for users, content
• Centralized, customized directories for books, videos, and wiki pages
• Potential integration with Google Wave and other collaboration platforms that simply aren't supported by Wordpress and Mediawiki
• Advanced syndication, allowing unparalleled integration with 3rd party sites

How to Migrate

Migrate from Mediawiki

Migration from Mediawiki to any other type of site can present some difficulties. Mediawiki has 3 main functions: Unique titles, categories, and search. All 3 of these can be taken care of using pre-existing scripts or a service.

• Service to migrate to drupal: http://drupal.org/node/776192
• Scripts to transfer directly to database http://groups.drupal.org/node/12005

Migrate from Wordpress

• Instructions http://drupal.org/node/43178
• Module for importing WXR file http://drupal.org/project/wordpress_import

Migrate from Ning to Drupal

Use the feeds module to import the JSON exports from Ning.

More Information

Internal Links

• Drupal
• Social Publishing
• P2P Foundation Social Publishing

External Links