OpenWetWare:Software/Distribution

Description

It is clear that scientists need areas to collaborate in private at various points in research projects. In fact, many members of OWW maintain private wikis for themselves or their labs to serve this function. The advantages of an OWW-branded Mediawiki distribution would be:

1. lower the barriers for moving information from a private wiki onto OpenWetWare.
   • format of pages will be the same, and because we could improve tools to merge private OWW-brand wikis into OWW.
2. provide greater exposure for OWW.
3. help decide the issue of whether to allow private pages on OWW.

Resources

The Cell Decision Process Center has offered to provide resources to develop an OWW-brand Mediawiki distribution. As I understand it, someone there would take the lead on seeing the project through, and we would provide support as needed.

Technical

OpenWetWare:Software/Distribution/Installation instructions -- Instructions from ilya on Mediawiki installation
Instructions from Mediawiki to install on a mac