[OWW-Discuss] blog authorship on OpenWetware?

Jason Kelly jasonk at MIT.EDU
Sat Dec 15 14:49:41 EST 2007


Yeah, I think this is a good idea.  I had been asking people to at
least identify themselves in their "About" page, but having it on the
front page by default would be better.

thanks,
jason

On Dec 15, 2007 2:42 PM, julius.lucks <julius.lucks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds great to me,
>
> Julius
>
> Please Reply to julius at younglucks.com
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2007, at 11:16 AM, "Reshma Shetty" <rshetty at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > In perusing the blog community on OpenWetWare, I noticed that the blog
> > author or authors isn't featured very prominently or at all on OWW
> > blogs.  I was wondering what people thought of
> >
> > 1) Having a policy that all blog posts are "signed" attributable to a
> > single OWW user.  Again, similar to the policy on the main site
> > (http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Username_policy), we'd push
> > for people to use their full publication name.
> >
> > 2) Featuring author names more prominently and linking those names to
> > OWW user pages (perhaps at the top with the blog title).
> >
> > It seems that this policy would be in keeping with the norms of both
> > scientific publishing and what we've been moving towards on the wiki.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Reshma
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