Enable any user to propose a citation / "in the news" link

[RichardTaylor]

Currently citations / "in the news" links can be added by

• admins
• requesters on their own requests

and they can only be added in bulk by developers.

Ideas:

• Anyone should be able to suggest a citation, submitting it for review by the admin team.
• Trusted users could be empowered to add annotations without pre-moderation. A journalist user should be able to add a citation if they have used material from a request, as should a researcher, scientist, activist, elected representative etc.
• Admins could be provided with tools to moderate proposed citations in bulk.
• Citations linking to certain domains eg. academic, government and known media organisation domains could skip pre-moderation.

Links:

• Implement escalating privileges system Implement escalating privileges system #229
• Offer options to admin the site via bulk actions Offer options to admin the site via bulk actions #5434

[RichardTaylor]

More discussion, including some of these ideas, is on the closed ticket for initially creating the "in the news" links

#5483

[garethrees]

#7068 would be a key enabler for giving us more confidence on doing this.

[HelenWDTK]

This issue has been automatically closed due to a lack of discussion or resolution for over 12 months.
Should we decide to revisit this issue in the future, it can be reopened.