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

Tue Jul 24 21:53:00 EDT 2007

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

Yeah, agreed.

Part of the problem is that there isn't really a big 'imaging' area on
OWW at the moment, so he'd have to start a section.  And I think the
barrier is still pretty high to starting a new topic area on the site,
new community members seem to be a lot more comfortable adding to
existing resources than starting new ones.  Maybe we should make the
process of starting "topic portals" more turnkey, or have a page
dedicated to them?  I think they are currently in the 'Reference
Materials' column of the Resources page:
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Resources

We do a better job aggregating and explaining how to add protocols and
lab homepages, which is why I think we get more of those.

As for the 'getting started' pages, we email the links in the welcome
email and the help button is on the homepage and the toolbar.  Reshma
also just added an icon to the help button on the labs page which
should make it more noticeable:
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Labs

any other suggestions welcome, or other problems that people have had
in finding particular types of information on the site.

thanks,
jason

On 7/24/07, Tom Knight <tk at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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
> >>> >
> >>> > -------------------------------------
> >>> > Trevor D. McKee, Ph.D  .
> >>> > Postdoctoral Fellow
> >>> > Princess Margaret Hospital
> >>> > 610 University Avenue
> >>> > 10th Floor Room 328
> >>> > Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada
> >>> > tmckee at uhnres.utoronto.ca
> >>> > lab416-946-4501 x5622
> >>> > fax416-946-2984
> >>> > http://ocipda.googlepages.com/
> >>>  >
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