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| Testing page designs and layouts.<BR><BR>
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| | Unfinished set of icons that I've made that can be used for Community Portal subgroups.<BR> |
| | I need suggestions on... |
| | #What topics should be included as icons? |
| | #What icon best describes that topic? |
| | #Any other modifications (to the current icons or anything else). |
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| Under heavy construction. Please do not disturb.
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| | This idea is borrowed from MIT TechTalk Event Highlights. |
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| <font size=5>Welcome to the Community Portal </font><BR><BR>
| | [[Image:Courses.png|thumb|left|Courses]] |
| <font size=3>Stay informed. Find out ways to help OWW. Discuss OWW structure, contents, and features. <BR><BR>Help us build our community and contribute!</font>
| | [[Image:Design.png|thumb|left|Design]] |
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| | valign="top" style="text-align: left;border:1px solid #aaaaaa; width: 200px; background-color:#f9f9f9; padding:5px; font-size: 95%; float:right;"| | | [[Image:Software.png|thumb|left|Software]] |
| <div style="text-align:center;font-size:1em;">'''Contents'''</div>
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| [[#How can I contribute?|» How can I contribute?]]<br />
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| [[#What needs doing?|» What needs doing?]]<br />
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| [[#Discussions|» Discussions]]
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| ==How can I contribute?==
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| :*Surf around. You're sure to find something that needs improvement.
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| :*Come here to check out "What needs doing" section.
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| :*Add this page as one of your watched pages for e-mail alerts on changes.
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| :*Join the [[OpenWetWare steering committee]].
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| ===What we can do for you===
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| :*Create a mailing list for reminders of how you can contribute.
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| :*Create a developers sub-committee of the [[OpenWetWare steering committee|steering committee]] to decide on new features and organization of OWW.
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| :*What else can we do for you?
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| ==What needs doing?==
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| :Lots! Check out the list, increasing in order of technical difficulty: from minor editing, right up to adding to the mediawiki software itself. Some of the lists are currently just discussions of how to organize and populate the list. Once those issues are worked out, they will be converted into actual lists of places to contribute.
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| ===What you can do===
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| :* Add an item, or
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| :* Fix an item, then remove it.
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| :Wikipedia operates on the policy that if you ''add'' a to-do item, you should if possible contribute to ''completing'' another. <BR>We'll benefit from this policy.
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| ===Add knowledge===
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| :'''Content''' is the lifeblood of OWW.
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| :*Check out the [[Questions and Answers]] page to see if you can answer someone's specific question.
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| :*Contribute to an existing page.
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| :*Start a new page on your favorite topic.
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| :Not as polished-looking as you want it to be? No worries! The community will help improve a page if you get it started.
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| ===Improve formatting and linking, correct typos=== | | {|style="text-align:left; background-color:#CDDE95; line-height: 1em" width="25%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" |
| :Nearly all pages could benefit from proof-reading, standardization of formatting or improved inter-page linking. In addition, it would be useful to make pages conform to the [[Etiquette|OWW etiquette]]. To make this process more directed, pages in need of attention should be added here.
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| | | |{{Click|image=Software.png|width=50px|height=50px|link=Roadmap}} |
| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
| | |'''[[Roadmap|<font size=2>Development Roadmap</font>]]'''<br /><font size=1>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</font> |
| *Check out the [[Simple wiki editing examples|Simple editing page]] or more detailed page from [[MetaWikiPedia:MediaWiki User's Guide|Mediawiki's User Guide]] and [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|Wikipedia's editing page]].
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| *Have a look at the [[Etiquette| OWW etiquette page]].
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| | | {|style="text-align:left; background-color:#DEE8B8; line-height: 1em" width="25%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" |
| ===Aggregation and organization of information===
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| For example, we'd like to list as many protocols as possible on the [[Protocols]] page. There are certainly protocols out there that are not linked to from the protocols page. If you find such a page and you think the author(s) would be happy to add it to the community protocols, then add the link. The same applies to equipment, materials or other shared resource pages in search of a home.
| | |{{Click|image=Ideas.png|width=50px|height=50px|link=OpenWetWare:Ideas}} |
| | | |'''[[OpenWetWare:Ideas|<font size=2>OWW Ideas</font>]]'''<br /><font size=1>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</font> |
| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
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| *Right now, you need to find a page by chance or go trawling through lab pages looking for protocol/equipment/material sections.
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| *If we could come up with a more automated way of aggregating protocols that would be great, maybe an extension or new special page would help? See below for how to do this.
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| ===Active Collaborations=== | | |{{Click|image=Design.png|width=50px|height=50px|link=OpenWetWare:Logo and Promo Poster Discussion}} |
| This is similar to the Featured Article page on wikipedia. We could list many pages here but it makes sense to list a small number to target peoples focus.
| | |'''[[OpenWetWare:Logo and Promo Poster Discussion|<font size=2>Logo and Poster</font>]]'''<br /><font size=1>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</font> |
| *[[Protocols]]<--see the protocols under development section
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| *[[OpenWetWare:New Lab Presentation]] <-- Basic intro to present usefulness for laboratory use
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| *[[OpenWetWare:FAQ]] <-- Needs to be split. User FAQ , New User FAQ, Visitor FAQ, Admin FAQ, New Lab FAQ
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| *[[Help:Contents]] <--Help currently resides in '''lots''' of places, these should probably all be centralized/aggregated here on the help page. They should possibly even be merged with the FAQ master page.
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| | | |{{Click|image=InformationManagement.png|width=50px|height=50px|link=Information Management Discussion}} |
| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
| | |'''[[Information Management Discussion|<font size=2>Info/Design Layouts</font>]]'''<br /><font size=1>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</font> |
| *If you know how to edit a page and you have an opinion on something, then you can almost definitely go edit these pages. *Remember that a wiki such as OWW depends on users being '''bold''' with their edits.
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| ===Add pages that have been previously requested===
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| People often want to see a page get started on a particular subject but don't have a chance to add content to that page at the time. Such pages are currently listed here - [[Special:Wantedpages]].
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| | | |{{Click|image=CommunityDevelopment.png|width=50px|height=50px|link=Information Management Discussion}} |
| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
| | |'''[[Information Management Discussion|<font size=2>Info/Design Layouts</font>]]'''<br /><font size=1>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</font> |
| *Go to [[Special:Wantedpages]], pick a page you know something about and add content!
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| ===Desirable [[OpenWetWare:Extensions|Extensions]]===
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| What bots, tags, features or special pages would we like to add to OWW?<br>
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| *A spelllchecker
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| *A category or other way that people could quickly annotate a page in some way. For example something like the stub template but rather than saying "this is a stub" it would say, "this page is cool" or "this page needs editing" etc. If this template includes a category, then we can easily aggregate all pages that feature that annotation.
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| *A revamped categories page that presents the data (i.e. the items in the category) in a more aesthetic way. Even better, how do I present a category of page in some arbitrary formating of my choosing?
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| *A bot to convert mu to μ in some reliable way.
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| *An improved <nowiki><gallery></nowiki> tag.
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| *A proposed implementation of tags via categories has been described at [[OpenWetWare steering committee/Software development ideas]]. Please add your feedback and ideas there.
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| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
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| These are harder to do and you probably can't actually get them working unless you have access to our servers. Assuming you can manage that, there are resources available to help you get started on some of these things. If you don't know perl or php before you start you'll probably learn pretty quick if try and do this
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| *[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Write_your_own_MediaWiki_extension Tutorial] on how to write an [[OpenWetWare:Extensions|extension]]
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| *[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page Tutorial on how to write a new special page]
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| ===Improve pages for new users=== | |
| We're trying to make OpenWetWare as painless to use and edit as possible, especially for new users. Ideally, we want concise and useful explanations for new users (and potential users). Help improve these pages for new users.
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Getting started | Getting started]] <-- give advice to new OpenWetWare labs and users. <font color="red">'''UPDATE: 2/22/2006 Actively in progress!'''</font>
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| *[[OpenWetWare:About | About us]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Why join? | Why join OpenWetWare?]] <-- give others reasons to join
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| *[[OpenWetWare:FAQ]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Tips | Tips on using OpenWetWare]] <-- handy tips for users acquainted with the basics
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| ==Discussions== | |
| A listing of discussions relating to OpenWetWare.
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| *[[Logo and Poster Discussion|Logo and Poster]]
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| *[[Information Management Discussion|Info/Design Layouts]]
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| *[[Roadmap|Development Roadmap]]
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| *[[Categories]] <-- we're still figuring out how to best make use of categories
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| **A proposed implementation of tags via categories has been described at [[OpenWetWare steering committee/Software development ideas]]. Please add your feedback and ideas there.
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Ideas | Ideas for OpenWetWare]] <-- post general thoughts/ideas on OpenWetWare here
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| *[[Logo and Poster Discussion|Logo and poster discussion]] <-- contribute to the logo discussion
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| *[[Mailing Lists]] <-- Coming Soon!
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| ==Help & General Information== | |
| Pages you can go to (and improve!) to get more information on OWW.
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| *[[OpenWetWare:About | About us]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Why join? | Why join OpenWetWare?]] <-- give others reasons to join
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Getting started | Getting started]] <-- give advice to new OpenWetWare labs and users
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| *[[OpenWetWare:FAQ]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Tips | Tips on using OpenWetWare]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Dewikify | Dewikifying a page on OpenWetWare]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Namespaces | Reserved namespaces]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Extensions | Extensions on OpenWetWare]]
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| *[[Etiquette]] <-- revise OpenWetWare etiquette guidelines
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| *[[Help:Contents | Help]] <-- give advice on editing OpenWetWare
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