I think a wiki to collect various PyMOL wisdom would be great. We have been using wikis internally for various project and they are very handy. A few thoughts/experiences:
- a plan for the organization (especially upfront) is very important. Once it gets going, it will grow organically. Having a master plan will help with the growth. - require people to register if they want to edit pages. Makes people more responsible, could help with spam, gives users a contact for further info. - MoinMoin (our choice), is very simple, python based, and has nice markup for python code. - some examples: * wikipedia (the mother of all wikis... just an example - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), * wxPyWiki (wxPython... more along the lines of what we might want - http://wiki.wxpython.org/) Cheers, Ken -----Original Message----- From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net]on Behalf Of D. Joe Anderson Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 6:55 AM To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Re:Wiki Brain Storming On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:36:29AM +0000, Kristian Rother wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:44, Warren DeLano wrote: > > Say, what do people think about the idea of creating a PyMOL Wiki to hold > > nuggets of information like this? Or is there a better alternative to > > Wiki now available? > > As i have been maintaining sort of PyMOL FAQ for some time, i would > definitely > like a Wiki, too. Simply because it would take less time for me to update a > Wiki rather than HTML pages. Thus, i strongly encourage setting up a Wiki, > and i would like to transfer all the answers i have collected there. > > If anyone is wondering what i'm talking about, look at > http://www.rubor.de/bioinf/pymol_tips.html I agree, a wiki could make that trove much easier to maintain, certainly to share out some of the maintenance. > I know Wiki's that suffer or starve from inactivity, but i never heard of one > that got unusable because malevolent users permanently put *graffitti* on the > pages. Permanently? Probably not. But that may be because the better known wikis are the active ones. The active ones get attention from enough legitimately-interested folks to keep reverting back to topical content when graffiti gets added. More problematic has been the rise of wiki spambots, which have been ravaging some of the low-volume wikis I run for myself. I need to upgrade these to one of the newer versions of the wiki engine I use, which include several different features which protect against this type of spamming. > However, a good Wiki needs to be structured beforehand, rather than having > everything grow by itself. Users will add things where aproppriate, anyway. > Thus, in a heavily used Wiki its definitely easy to get lost. Agreed. To have a better shot at success, a wiki needs to be seeded with some initial content, and some initial stylistic conventions (free links vs CamelCase wiki names, for instance) should be set down. -- D. Joe Anderson, Asst. Sci. 2252 Molecular Biology Bldg Biochem, Biophys, & Mol Bio Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50010 Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text http://expita.com/nomime.html ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users
