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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hi All,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I just noticed the Lab Notebooks advertisement on the main page.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> It looks great! Very inviting, I think.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I do have a few comments, which are coming from the perspective of someone who hasn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t been following the development in the past few months. Basically, when I read the help page, there are a lot of nice looking things, but I don</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t know what to do. I can contrast this to when I first set up a lab page,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">which</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> I was able to do</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> easily by</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">following</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> the step-by-step instructions. I know a lot more about wikis now, but am not clear when reading the Help:Notebook page. Here</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">re some points which may not be obvious to those who already know what</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">s going on:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">1. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri"> It would be good to link to example notebook pages right at the top of the help page.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> It</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">s not until the bottom of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> page that screenshots are shown, but even then the links are to images. Maybe I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">m missing something obvious</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, but where do I see a working example?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">a. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Along the same lines, if there are other related pages can these be linked at the top of the help page?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">2. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">The steps are not obvious. Without actually trying it yet, it seems like the steps are 1, 2, 3 (listed vertically</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">: notebook, project, entry</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">) and for each of these steps, we should do 1, 2, 3 (listed horizontally</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">: template, create, paste)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">. I think it would</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">be better to have the steps listed out, similar to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://openwetware.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_lab_wiki"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://openwetware.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_lab_wiki</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">3. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> there supposed to be some templates on</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">notebook page</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">? I don</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t see it listed on the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">help</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> page.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">4. </FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">When I click on the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">my lab notebook</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> link at the top right of the page, it goes to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Notebook:Steven J. Koch</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> whereas it seems like we</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">re supposed to put it in User: namespace? </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Does any of that make sense?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">--Steve</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Koch_Lab"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></U><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">www.openwetware.org/wiki/Koch_Lab</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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