OpenWetWare:Community Portal

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Ways to participate     Join the OpenWetWare steering committee. The steering committee makes decisions about the overall direction of the site.     OWW To do list Want to help make OWW better? Join one of these projects!     Request new software features Have a new feature you'd like to see implemented in OWW? Add it to the list.     Useful extensions Check out these cool extensions we have to make using OWW easier!     OWW Ideas Got any general ideas for improving OWW? Chime in here! Or join one of the specific discussions below. Recent discussions List of abbreviations: N This edit created a new page (also see list of new pages) m This is a minor edit b This edit was performed by a bot (±123) The page size changed by this number of bytes 23 February 2026  m   07:41  Gerber:Publications 2 changes history +38 [Andre P. Gerber (2×)]  m    07:41 (cur | prev) 0 Andre P. Gerber talk contribs  m    07:41 (cur | prev) +38 Andre P. Gerber talk contribs 18 February 2026      15:07  Hu diffhist +154 Hugangqing talk contribs 16 February 2026      21:50  CHIP:Talks diffhist −90 Gabor Balazsi talk contribs      20:37  Beauchamp 4 changes history −64 [Zhengjia (4×)]       20:37 (cur | prev) −19 Zhengjia talk contribs       20:37 (cur | prev) −65 Zhengjia talk contribs       20:37 (cur | prev) −1 Zhengjia talk contribs       20:36 (cur | prev) +21 Zhengjia talk contribs Active topics under consideration Please feel free to add and remove topics from this list. This is meant as a place for the all OpenWetWare users to organize ongoing specific discussions.     2/20/2007 -- Web of public wiki's Should we implement a web of independent public wiki's?     2/17/2007 -- Proposed new steering committee positions Should we create some new steering committee positions?     1/17/06 -- Responding to NSF regarding grant proposal NSF has a few concerns regarding our grant proposal. Chime in to the response.     11/10/06 -- Image Editor An SVG image editor embedded in the wiki     11/10/06 -- Protocol Editors/Curators Is it a good idea to have a named editor/curator for consensus protocols? Discuss here.     11/9/06 -- OpenWetWare Directory A discussion of how to best implement a directory for users/job-searching/etc.     11/8/06 -- A Nature Methods article on OWW protocols James Hadfield is leading the writing of a brief correspondence regarding OWW protocols for Nature Methods. Contributions welcome.     10/21/06 -- Copyright licenses for images Should images be capable of being licensed differently from "regular" OWW content?     10/17/06 -- Should we have private pages on OWW? We're once again revisiting the topic of controlling access to pages.     10/17/06 -- Protocol aggregation We're once again revisiting the topic of protocol organization. Chime in!     OpenWetWare T-shirts We're designing T shirts!     Dynamic ranking of OWW pages via Reddit We're considering using Reddit to dynamically vote on OWW pages. Would it be useful?     Flexible Science Databases with OWW A discussion of how to implement/integrate easy-to-make databases within OWW. Expertise needed.