[OWW-Discuss] Hello list! (I'm new)

[John Cumbers]

Hi Dan, Bryan, All,
You may be interested in the first 'OWW action hour' next week, Thu 14th
Feb, noon-1pm EST.  Where a bunch of people from the Steering committee will
be on-line and either completing their actions or chatting with others about
stuff.  It's the first one, but I presume we'll meet in the chat room on the
main page.
cheers,
John


On Feb 8, 2008 6:44 PM, Julius Lucks <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> In addition to what Reshma said:
>
> Many thanks for your generous feedback!  We would like to encourage as
> much feedback as possible from OWW users to help guide the steering
> committee.
>
> I also like the chatting feature, but I have yet to meet up with
> > anyone online at the same time as me. Is this client an interface to
> > an IRC backend? i.e. do you have an IRC server that I can connect to
> > with a different client? There are a group of us who hang out in
> > irc://irc.freenode.net/#bioinformatics and I imagine some who would
> > love to join the conversation.
> >
>
> This is a great point and something we will look into.  If you can think
> of any ways that we might advertise the chatting feature more so more users
> use it, that would be great.  One of my main interests is to figure out how
> OWW can bring people together more, and I think the chatting feature is one
> place that we can do that.
>
>
> >
> > The main question about the system that I have is this, I was
> > wondering why the registration of OpenWetWare is so restrictive - How
> > come you don't allow freer editing of pages and content? Perhaps you
> > benefit from having more control over your users and more 'restricted'
> > content, however, the success of Wikipedia suggests that 'the more the
> > better'. I know registration is only a few clicks, along with a slight
> > delay, but that will put a lot of people off. Perhaps you think it is
> > better to exclude such 'casual' users, but I don't think it is good
> > policy. I would like to see more 'open' access to all the features of
> > the site.
>
>
> Interesting thoughts.  Basically it boils down to the target audience of
> OWW which is more along the lines of professional scientists and students of
> science rather than people casually interested in science.  Of course anyone
> is welcome to read and re-use the content of OWW, but we require
> registration so that we have a solid provenance link between content and who
> wrote it.  This is because the information on OWW is primarily scientific in
> nature - protocols, experimental plans, experimental data, etc.  We take
> this very seriously because we want the integrity of the data and associated
> discussion on OWW to be as high as possible.  We are even considering trying
> to promote OWW contributions as cite-able material in which the current
> scientific value system mandates a name to be associated with the content.
>
> We also have a slightly different article model than wikipedia - rather
> than having one page per topic, we really have one page per person per
> topic.  That is, multiple researchers working on the same topic will have
> different views on the topic that should all be equally represented.  It
> makes things different enough that we have to consider that when we talk
> about how OWW is structured.
>
>
> >
> >
> > I am still exploring the content of the site - there is a lot to look
> > at, and for a newbie like me, a lot to take in! It is really great to
> > find such a mature project like this, and I am very much enjoying
> > moving around the site and finding new content.
>
>
> How are you finding stuff on the site? Internal search engine? Google?
> Following Links? Recent Changes? - We would really appreciate feedback in
> this area so that we can improve.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Julius
> OWW Outreach Chair
>
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