<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">One way to do it would be to create a Hlep entry for anything like this that comes up: <a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/Help:HOWTO">http://openwetware.org/wiki/Help:HOWTO</a><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Other ways of dealing with it that seem to work is to have a community forum where threads are suggested and replied to. I find these useful at first, but then unweildy when they grow very large.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Maybe a combination of both where someone is in charge of migrating the forum answers to polished help pages is the best way to go.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>J</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Please Reply to My Permanent Address: julius@younglucks.com</div><div>http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/User:Julius_B._Lucks</div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span></span> </div><br><div><div>On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Bill F wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Ricardo,<br><br>Thanks for the comments. I'd like to find a way to make this info and other related info accessible to others: this is a frequent question. <br><br>We spoke of the relevance of blogs and the poor searchability within OWW. I suspect I mean we've spoken<i> around the search issue</i> rather than directly of it. But this is a great example of a small comment that will someday save someone hours of data re-entry time or a decision to stop using OpenWetWare altogether. I have another related comment re: getting data into the system that, if I just say it here, will be useful to a few folks but because it's in an email message, it will be lost to the rest of the world.<br> <br>How do people think we should proceed? Julius and Mac have been working on "how-to" articles. Lorrie and I are working to come out with a consistent and useful way of providing help for all parts of out Lab Notebooks. Is better Help a solution? What do you think? <br> <br>Any ideas? <br><br>In general I wish we had a way to take these kind of email messages and turn them directly into categorized and searchable wiki content. But I'm not sure email is an answer in itself.<br><br>Thanks.<br> <br>B.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Ricardo Vidal <<a href="mailto:rvidal@gmail.com">rvidal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Julius, I think I know what your timeout problem may be. It has to do with your login timing out and not allowing you to post your info or even going back to save the textarea field after long edits, right?<br><br>I had that problem and it's a big turn off. But recently I've found how to overcome this and stay logged in all the time.<br> Go to your preferences and set a new password (can be the same one) and then select "Remember my login on this computer"<br><br>That's it. Now you should be logged on permanently until you want to log off.<br> <br>This tick box in the preferences seems to work whereas the other one that exists underneath the login form, doesn't. Or at least not for me (and others that I've seen mentioning this problem).<br clear="all"> <font color="#888888"><br> -- <br>Ricardo Vidal<br><a href="mailto:rvidal@gmail.com" target="_blank">rvidal@gmail.com</a> | <a href="http://my.biotechlife.net" target="_blank">http://my.biotechlife.net</a><br>Skype: icky_bu </font><br>_______________________________________________<br> OpenWetWare Discussion Mailing List<br> <a href="mailto:discuss@openwetware.org">discuss@openwetware.org</a><br> <a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-discuss" target="_blank">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-discuss</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>