[OWW-Discuss] question - pointers to wiki design "for dummies"

[Tom Knight]

We should try to figure out why it was difficult for him to locate 
these links on his own, and make it easier.

On Jul 24, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Trevor McKee wrote:

> Great, thanks a lot for the links.
>
> Yeah, figured I'd give it a go.  I'm not so much a "wetlab" person as 
> I am an imaging person - but OWW is a neat concept, and a little more 
> amenable to editing than our current webpage (which was designed by 
> one of my summer students last year).  I'm happy to contribute to any 
> imaging related discussions should you need any particular resources - 
> one very good reference for imaging is ImageJ, the open-source java 
> based image editing and measurement program for science - you can find 
> the program and project page at
>
> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/
>
> and you can also find a manual put together by one of the core 
> facilities at our institution:
>
>  http://www.uhnres.utoronto.ca/facilities/wcif/imagej/
>
> Point me in the right direction and I can stick that info on a page 
> (in case it's not up there already)...
>
> Is the oww-discuss list for this kind of stuff, or is the discussion 
> oriented more within the wiki pages?  Sorry - I'm a little too old 
> school for all this new fangled web 2.0 stuff - thanks for helping me 
> along.  :)
>
> Also, I hope to see some of you at the BE / Chem E BBQ next week, as 
> I'm back in town doing some experiments to finish up a (seemingly 
> endless) paper for my former PI there - and if they'll accept crufty 
> alums, I'm down with getting some free Redbones, for old time's sake.  
> :)
>
> - Trev
>
>
> On 7/24/07, Sri Kosuri <skosuri at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Good to see you on OWW!  As for editing wiki pages, the easiest thing 
>> to do is to look at another page that has similar formating, and copy 
>> and paste the code into your new page.  Then you can change the 
>> specifics of anything you need.  Also, we'll keep a look out for you 
>> and help you along the way.
>>
>> Sri
>>
>>
>> On 7/24/07, Reshma Shetty < rshetty at mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> See the help pages at http://openwetware.org/wiki/Help:Contents
>>>
>>> In particular, these two tutorials might be helpful ...
>>>
>>> for getting started on OWW
>>> http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Getting_started
>>>
>>> for starting a lab wiki on OWW
>>>  http://openwetware.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_lab_wiki
>>>
>>> If you have questions beyond this, let us know.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Reshma
>>>
>>> On 7/24/07, Trevor David McKee < tdmckee at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > Great site - I've just put my lab's site up in the "labs in 
>>> development"
>>> > portion of OWW - and quickly realized I have no clue how to design 
>>> wiki
>>> > pages.  Any suggestions you could provide on free / inexpensive 
>>> tutorials on
>>> > wiki?  I know some basic html, but editing wiki pages is 
>>> sufficienly new for
>>> > me that I have no clue what all the different formatting rules 
>>> are, etc.
>>> > Sorry for the newbie question, and thanks for any help you could 
>>> provide.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks a lot.
>>> >
>>> > - Trevor
>>> >
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