Define Admin Roles

[jesicarson]

We identified the need to potentially have more levels of editorial/admin users, but we need to define what these roles are and what additional rights each role has. Next time Dethe and Jesi get together in person they will go over Scott’s Admin tools wishlist and decide what looks reasonable given the new site.

Changes from .net doc- scott listed wish list for admin tools at end of this doc: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1laEc11Y3PN41IaDuFluIl1UiEsONLifM1NPYEVgI1AI

[jesicarson]

@dethe Existing tools on .net:

• Edit users profiles (including changing their passwords, but couldn't view old password. able to view their email address, settings, etc.)
• Delete spam users
• Change authorship of entries (useful if someone published a method that should have been a case, for example, and scott copies the content to a case - i could manually attribute authorship of the case to the original author, rather than scott)
• Delete content (ie the method that was incorrectly entered in the example above)
• Publish new pages (like help pages/ about pages)
• Publish news articles
• Create slides (for the homepage slideshow)
• Mark organizations as featured

[jesicarson]

Right now on xyz admins can:

• Hide articles and make them featured.

@dethe of all the things in the .net list above, I think the most important is covered for launch (featuring / removing content from public view). It would be nice to be able to deal with authorship but maybe if it comes up you or andrea can do it manually if admins cant yet? It would also be nice if admins can edit the about, teaching, research, etc pages - add/ remove sections, edit the copy, but not needed before launch. And news of course, if it is ready before launch, admins have to be the ones publishing news articles.

[dethe]

Ah, thanks, that was the one:

• Only Admins can create/edit News articles

[scottofletcher]

New: #906 Admin tool: messaging/alert system

[scottofletcher]

Also see this folder for screenshots of Wikipedia editing tools I mention in my wishlist: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwMEfFNchoN8bHBhU21IeDh3TFE