[OWW-Discuss] Microscopy question: follow up

Wed Jul 25 16:27:36 EDT 2007

Just a quick e-mail to clarify the issue:

I was able to find the Protocols:Other protocols:Microscopy section OK, I
guess my thoughts were more of a confusion as to whether to put microscopy
and image analysis under  Protocols:Other protocols:Microscopy, Protocols:in
silico, or Resources:Microscopy.  I guess since it's a wiki, I could put it
somewhere, and then let someone else edit it to another location afterwards
- is that the idea?

I'd be happy to start an imaging section, if you could tell me which of
those major webpages / categories it would fall under.  I agree that some
sort of topics portal would be nice from a new user's perspective, because
especially for those new to wiki's, the whole process of editing the front
page or some major page (i.e. Resources, Protocols, etc.) to start a new
section is somewhat intimidating (i.e. i don't want to muck up the site,
having just started to use it)

Thanks again for your help,
Trevor

> > 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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