User:Ricardo Vidal/workshed: Difference between revisions

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Hover notes thingy like Flickr (extension) - This would allow one to add notes to images without actually altering the original file.
Seamless layout that allows one to go from wiki to blog without too much graphic difference. Try not to make it look like the users are leaving OWW when reading a blog. (Ex: http://wiki.shift.pt/doku.php )
Software ideas for blogs

Interesting pages box - A section could be created on the homepage (or a community page) that calls the users attention to a specific useful and interesting page. There are dozens of links with interesting information that are not accessed regularly and could become great resources. Which ones you ask? Here's just a few:
- How to write a thesis proposal, How to publish a paper, Searching the literature;
- Communicating your results through Papers, Posters, Talks, Software for papers, posters and talks, Visualization or just Communicating science to the public;
- How to [a letter of recommendation]

A small list of them could be compiled in a specialpage or tagged as "very interesting" and then displayed randomly to visitors of the site. I'm sure they'd become greatly used.

This is a list of steps that I consider essential to make OWW better organized and easier to use.

A new set of tutorials for new/recent users. These tutorials should be step-based and when possible accompanied by screencasts (videos).
- Hierarchical pages - this is very important to keep the wiki organized. Many new users place their pages in the wrong place.
Forms to kick-start pages. These forms can be implemented on a page-type basis. If creating a protocol page, the form would show fields for material, methods, notes, etc. These forms would only appear on first edit.
Setup a page (community page, activity page, features page) that will concentrate featured and active pages on the wiki. This page depends on the creation of new functions/extensions that allow to create and follow such activity.
- Vote page up/down (à lá Digg)
- Lab Notebook Milestone marker (feature a project's status)
- Latest users & Map with location (this is easier if country and city are made compulsory on sign up)
Focus on outreach by creating some plugins/widgets for blogs and other sites to display related OWW pages (ie Google Adsense). Also get a page together with all the buttons and banners available with code for easy insertion in html.
- Edit count top 10 (activity != interesting --> logs, order pages, etc)

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 ==Outreach==
 * '''Interesting pages box''' - A section could be created on the homepage (or a community page) that calls the users attention to a specific useful and interesting page. There are dozens of links with interesting information that are not accessed regularly and could become great resources. Which ones you ask? Here's just a few:
-** [[How to write a paper]], [[How to write a thesis proposal]], [[How to publish a paper]], [[How to read a paper]], [[How to review a paper]], [[How to run a group meeting]]
+** [[How to write a thesis proposal]], [[How to publish a paper]], [[Searching the literature]];
-** Communicating your results through [[Papers]], [[Posters]], [[Talks]], [[Software for papers, posters and talks]], [[Visualization]] or just [[Communicating science to the public]]
+** Communicating your results through [[Papers]], [[Posters]], [[Talks]], [[Software for papers, posters and talks]], [[Visualization]] or just [[Communicating science to the public]];
 ** How to [[http://openwetware.org/wiki/Writing_a_letter_of_recommendation|write a letter of recommendation]]
 * A small list of them could be compiled in a specialpage or tagged as "very interesting" and then displayed randomly to visitors of the site. I'm sure they'd become greatly used.
 ==Organizing OWW==