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
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[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 +, 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.
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D. Joe Anderson, Asst. Sci.2252 Molecular Biology Bldg
Biochem, Biophys, Mol Bio Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50010
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