A Rocha's new web site

This is the actual debate on what should and should not make it to the new web site. Add items here, according to the proposed categories. Also comment on other people's ideas, including on their necessity.

Absolutely needed
Things you feel should really, really be there.

All languages, all characters
Arabic mixed with Czech should work. Characters like proper inverted commas (“ and ”) and dashes – such should be possible. – Tintazul talk 17:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Don't forget Chinese! --M.connett 04:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Straightforward upload and download of files
On the externally facing website especially, it should be straightforward to put up pdf files and forms, e.g. for volunteers. The team website should be able to have "knowledge base" pages (Rob's idea) where conservation science data in a variety of forms can be stored and shared within and between teams: GPS data, spreadsheets, photos.... On the team website, we should be able to have pages on which one can easily upload and download copies of all A Rocha publications (Francois' idea), pdf copies of things others have written about A Rocha (these can be very useful in spreading the word, and fundraising), educational materials that the EEN comes up with, etc. --M.connett 04:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Links which won't break
Right now, links break whenever we add new pages; we can't have that anymore. – Tintazul talk 17:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Necessary
Things you feel would be useful.

Integration with the Teams' Web Site
The Teams' Web Site should have the same editing possibilities as the main site, and should only be accessible to people who have a username and password. By the way, each user of the Teams' Web Site should have their own password. – Tintazul talk 17:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Each user having an "own" password would make it easier to create some working group pages to which particular people would have access to jointly work on conservation data analysis, a scientific publication, a grant proposal, a brochure or the like. --M.connett 04:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Editor
I think a better WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get) is needed. The editor interface for this wiki, for example, still shows a lot of HTML code symbols that represent an undesirable maze for people who are not experienced with HTML. --M.connett 04:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

RSS feeds
Particularly the internal team website needs a mechanism to tell users when something new is added. RSS feeds are a mechanism to set this up individually for different pages of interest, e.g. there is a particular group of people who would want to know when there's a new page about Climate Stewards business policy, different perhaps from the group that wants to know when there's a new publication about GPS methods. I think having the ability to add RSS feeds to the different national organisation pages might also increase traffic to the externally facing websites. People come to look at a page more often if they know it is changing periodically. --M.connett 04:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Single login
Right now, editors on our web site need to log in to each account; they should be allowed to log in once, and change the web site as they read it. – Tintazul talk 17:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Should not be there
Things which you feel should not be in our CMS.

Customisable layout
For some sites, users may change the layout; I don't think we need that. – Tintazul talk 17:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

The icing on the cake
These are things that might not actually be necessary, but that would make you personally very happy to see there.

Picture of the day
We have tens of thousands of pictures among us, and many are outstandingly good. I think dynamic pictures, who tell a story, are better; for an example see Serge Hänzi's Black Woodpecker carving a nest. Wow! So we'd have a different picture each day, with a single paragraph as caption. Translated into all languages, and featured on the main page. This would need a system for storing the pictures and captions for many days to come, and then automatically at midnight switch to the new day's Picture of the Day. – Tintazul talk 17:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Amen, amen, amen! and it would be nice if the team website could have some beautiful pictures too, to rejoice the hearts of the team! but adding pictures suggests that the WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get) should have at least some minimal layout tools such as table creation, so that pictures can be easily aligned or wrapped with accompanying text. --M.connett 04:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Blogs or a discussion forum
I personally don't think this would necessarily be a benefit on the externally-facing website, but in the team website it might be really good to have a place where anyone who has access can share a blessing, a verse, a prayer request, an observation or question or whatever, and others can add replies and comments. --M.connett 04:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)