Howto post an article.

Hi all.

As long awaited, here is a overview of the current process, used to
submit informations and articles on the usephp.net web site. I'll use
this email as a starter for an article on the web site later on.

The SPIP interface is based on articles processing, similarly to 
newspaper
edition : articles are written, reviewed by peers, then by editor, then
published. We'll use the same approach here. If you want to write an
article, or submit a Press release, here is the process :

1 Ask for an account to [email protected] and [email protected]. Explain
briefly what you're going to do there, and we'll set the account up. Send
us a login.

2 With your account login and the password we'll send back to you, use
your navigator with the URL http://beta.usephp.net/ecrire/. You'll be
prompted for login and password.

3 Here you are in the administrative part of SPIP. Pretty nice piece of 
work,
and it should be user friendly (if not English friendly) enough to allow 
easy use.
Select a category for your article, and then go in there. Short 
description of
the categories are available for every of them, so you can't get lost.
4 go in there, select an 'ecrire un nouvel article' and fill in the 
form. In this form
there is :
Sur titre : for a small text appearing above title (optional).
Titre : Title itself. mandatory!
Sous titre : for a small text appearing below title (optional).
Descriptif rapide ; this is for resume. Keep is short. It will be used 
on listings pages.
Chapeau ; Any introduction to the article. Optionnal.
Texte : the article itself.
Post-Scriptum : yeah, PS.
   When done, validate it.

5 You'll see the way the article will show up when in the web site. if 
it's not fitting
your taste, go to the bottom of the page, and follow the link 'modifier 
cet article' which
will modify it.

6 When you'll be done with writing, look for the 'Cet article est :' 
sentence, and set it
to 'proposé à l'évaluation', which will make it available to all the 
current users of the
web site. the big dot should turn orange. hit 'modifier' to validate 
this.

7. Now, send [email protected] an email, asking for review. People 
with
access will be able to read this article before it is posted on the web, 
then
comment and annotate it, using the linked forum. Every article gets its 
own forum,
so as to be discussed.

8 When discussion are over, the article is published thanks to the 
moderators.

Ta da!

This should do the job. Wait for 1 hour cache to end, and you'll see 
yourself
highly promoted on the usephp.net web site! Thanks for your comment!

As part of the current effort, a translation for the interface is 
underway. Sorry
for the inconvenience.

Damien Seguy