Hi Dallas/Mark,
Actually, we can give it a try - I'll see if I have time to set
something up this week(end) and then assign all of you guys as
editors/admins too :-)
A wiki is most probably better than a forum, too. The main reason we
passed on the forum idea was that many users would only enter the
forum to post their own question and there would only be a small
number of people actively reading the forum to answer other posts on
a daily basis.
The advantage of a wiki is that it encourages adding to discussions
and making longer answers.
Cheers,
Erik
On May 2, 2007, at 3:13 AM, Dallas B. Warren wrote:
It's a good idea, but I don't think it will help a great
deal. The main
problem with frequently-occurring questions is that the
askers haven't
read the manual, the man pages, the web page, the FAQ or searched the
mailing list archives. In context, a Wiki would just be one
more thing
for them not to read :-) I remember back in December 2005 I
Yes, for sure. And you see that in pretty much any community like
this,
whether is is "professional", "academic" or "hobby". They all
struggle
with similar issues.
Suggestion is to provide somewhere that information can be collected
together by pretty much anyone, distributing the load off the
developers
who have much more important things to be doing. Like making the code
faster :-)
That said, there are frequently occurring questions whose
answers are in
the above documentation sources, but not easy (or apparently easy) to
find. It would be nice to be able to say when someone couples ions to
temperature baths independently "see
http://www.gromacs.org/wiki/should_i_couple_a_few_ions_to_a_he
at_bath".
Also being able to put one's mailing list answer up there straight
away
would be useful.
Yes, that is what I was thinking it would help out with. Common
question is asked on the emailing list, one of the people who respond,
writes up a response which can then be added to the wiki, arranged
in an
easy to find location. Material is easily updated in the future, more
details added, links to things etc.
No idea if it would help, but it is a good option out there available.
There are then all the issues with abuse of the wiki and all those
admin
related things. But there are ways to fix things like that.
It does require someone to take some charge of the organisation of
the
data on it, however.
Certainly does. Notice the hand up offering to give back to the
GROMACS
community right here :-)
Catch ya,
Dr. Dallas Warren
Lecturer
Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3010
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+61 3 9903 9524
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resemble
a nail.
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