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Co Authoring

  1. GEISHA
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    I just found Word Press yesterday, and I gotta admit, I love it. But,, I'm seeing a potential here that i think may be being completely overlooked.
    Now, honestly, I've purposely avoided "blogs" since their inception years ago. And, as the web filled up with this kids drug experiences ot that kids broken hearts, or even this other kids music collection, i avoided them even more.. It got to where blogs were like opinions, everyone had one and in fact, most blogs were nothing more than a whine sheet.
    I want to do something different.
    The world has never been shaped by direct opinion. It's been shape by peoples imaginations after experiencing a story. An Example. No one really gave a rat about the american indian wars until a little movie called soldier blue came out, then whadda ya know.. Everyone gets a concience.
    Books and novels are another place thats also changed thw world. Rilke, Hemingway, Adams, Rand, tons of people who simply created characters whos lives embodied that writers opinions.
    Now we have a modern age. we have the web. Paper and pen will still be there, but you can publish on the web and reach a billion people, litterally, overnight.
    With it's Customizable themes, it's ease of installation and use (hey, if "I" can do it....) it's a perfect platform for on line novelization and pblishing. But it's missing one thing..
    What if i want to jointly create a piece of work with another writer?? Whether it's a compendium of stories or even one story split between two or more authors.. Here i sit with the absolute, most wonderfully designed piece of authoiring software in the entire world (believe me, i've been looking for sixteen hours a day for over a week) and i cant co author.
    IS there a pluggin that exists that allows more than one person to author a blog?? Could one be made? I understand file locking issues and cvs but even a crude checkout system is prefferable to nothing..

    Thanks for this incredible piece of software.. Hope to hear soon..
    Geisha

    Posted: 6 years ago #

  2. kyte
    Member

    You can have multiple authors on your blog, all you have to do is add them in the user section. There are a lot of good options for registered users, you can have them all at different levels of access, as well.

    Posted: 6 years ago #

  3. jakeanders
    Member

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    Kyte, I think Geisha means multiple authors on one post, or one page. So that if someone writes a post, another edits t then they can both be credited with that post. Even if that is not what was intended it seems like a good idea to me.

    Posted: 6 years ago #

  4. GEISHA
    Member

    Jakeanders :)
    That's exactly what i meant. The organization i and my friends are building, has at it's core, written role playing between two or more people. unlike normal role playing, there's no dice, no monsters, no make believe beyond the writers imaginations, and the stories inspired by flight dimmers imaginations. everything else is real. The places, the events, all unfolding day to day, and the people are just people, playing a part in the game of life. In reality, a Tsunami went through the solomon islands not too many days ago. it did a great deal of real damage. in the game, had it been up and running, it would have wiped out one of our main sites with loss of life and property.
    These are situations dictating co-operation and teamwork. ifrom the writers standpoint it dictates that more than one person write their side of each story. Reality based fiction..
    The problem is that, untill very recently, all software has been written for the single user stand alone view of the world. It was impossible to do anything with someone else. Then flight sims like Falcon 4.0 began introducing ways of not just playing with each other but of forming teams and logging scores on a dedicated server. That was in the nineties, but now, ten years later, it's time to grow again and create interdependant structures where people collaberatively create and develope thier world. It's time to ovecome the stand alone complex.
    For wordpress. you can have mmultiple authors on a single system, but an instance of wordpress needs to be installed for each user. with a database reuired for each installation, it can get very expensive very quickly, and you still do not have a collaberative environment. Perhaps a module that allowed creation and deletion of temporary and fluid work groups or pods (hate that term really) so tht people could join or leave a group at whim and still have their own blog would be good. it would be like a house. you would have a room where everyone could jointly do things together all at the same time, and your own private space on the side.
    I guess i simply think it's time we stop living proprietary and self distanced lives and start looking at the incredible possibilities available to us by sharing and working together.. But thats where role playing comes in.
    Geisha

    Posted: 6 years ago #

  5. kariakina
    Member

    Maybe you should use a wiki.

    Posted: 6 years ago #

  6. sekari
    Member

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    A friend and I are working on a blog where we do movie reviews together. We set it up so that we trade off paragraphs in a kind of dialogue. To have some kind of plug-in that makes this kind of authoring clear to the reader is exactly what we want. I've thought about making a notation of our initials before each paragraph, which would make it look like a script. Or maybe highlighting the first line of each segment in a different color. But then it might look like they were links or something. If there was a plug-in that addressed this I'd really apreciate it.

    Posted: 5 years ago #

  7. jeffr0
    Member

    This plugin seems to fit the bill

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/

    Posted: 3 years ago #

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