Wikimedia Storyboard
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The idea of the Wikimedia Storyboard is to develop a fundraising landing page on http://wikimediafoundation.org/ with moderated but up-to-date stories from users and donors explaining the role Wikimedia has played in their lives. The motivation of building such a landing page is that donor and supporter stories can help to convince and persuade people of the impact an organization is having. It's essentially an extended, moderated version of the real-time contribution history.
Quick and dirty mock-ups
editStoryboard
editStory submission
editStory review
editSearch/navigation could be very basic initially, but the ability to search inside stories (both published and unpublished) would be a nice-to-have feature.
Naturally, the software would have to be fully internationalized. Ideally, we'd store a language field with each story (depending on the UI language, but changeable by admins later to move things into a different queue) so that speakers of different languages can moderate different story queues.
Implementation notes
edit- In order to retain maximum flexibility regarding story display and submission, it would perhaps be best to implement both features as parser hooks (e.g. <storyboard/> and <storysubmission/>), or as special pages that can be transcluded. The story review interface can be a regular special page.