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| <div style="text-align:center;font-size:150%;font-weight:bold;">Welcome to the Community Portal! | | | |
| </div> | | <center><font size=2 face="tahoma" color=#660099>Stay Up-To-Date with the Latest Discussions in these Developmental Areas</font></center> |
| This is the place to be if you are interested in contributing to OpenWetWare at any level. It tells you how to stay informed about what needs to be done. It lists ways to contribute to OWW and what tools you can use to contribute. It also serves as a location for discussions about OpenWetWare's structure, content and features. We are in the process of thinking through how best to build our community and enable contributions, if you see a way to make this page more useful, please add it to the discussion page.
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| <div style="text-align:center;font-size:1em;">'''Contents'''</div>
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| [[#How do I know where to contribute?|» How do I know where to contribute?]]<br />
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| ==How do I know where to contribute?==
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| If you want to contribute to OpenWetWare there are a couple of things you can do right now-
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| *You can simply surf around and you're sure to find stuff that could be improved.
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| *A quicker way to find things to do is to come here and check out the lists of what needs doing.
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| *Add this page as one of your watched pages, so you get email alerts of changes to the page.
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| *Join the [[OpenWetWare steering committee]].
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| In the future, there are some other things we could do to help people contribute to OWW -
| | <font size=4>'''Recent discussions'''</font>{{Special:Recentchanges/n=1,n=4,n=5,n=13}} |
| *Rename this page or give it a more prominent location.
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| *Create a mailing list for people interested in opportunities to contribute to OWW. This would be a contributors/developers mailing list. All the same information would be available on this page but its always useful to receive reminders of what needs to be done.
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| *It may also be useful to create a developers sub-committee of the [[OpenWetWare steering committee]] that could meet (in person if the need arises) to make decisions about new features or the organization of OWW.
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| *What other ways can we enable people to contribute to OWW?
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| ==What needs doing?==
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| There are lots of things to be done and these items fall under different categories. They are listed in increasing order of technical difficulty from minor editing, right up to adding to the mediawiki software itself. Some of the lists are currently just discussions of how to organize and populate the list but once these issues are worked out they will be converted into actual lists of places to contribute.
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| You can do two things to these lists - add an item, or fix an item and remove it. Wikipedia operates on the policy that if you ''add'' a to-do item, you should if possible contribute to ''completing'' another to-do item. We may well benefit from a similar policy.
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| ===Add knowledge===
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| Content is the lifeblood of OWW, contributing information to an existing page or starting a new page is arguably the most useful thing you could do for OWW.
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| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
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| *Add to an existing page
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| *Start a new page on your favorite topic. Remember that many of the pages on OWW started off looking quite crude, so feel free to put up a page that doesn't look as polished as you would like it to. The community will help improve a page if you get it started.
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| *Check out the [[Questions and Answers]] page to see if you can answer someone's specific question.
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| ===Improve formatting and linking, correct typos===
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| Nearly all pages could benefit from proof-reading, standardization of formatting or improved inter-page linking. In addition, it would be useful to make pages conform to the [[Etiquette|OWW etiquette]]. To make this process more directed, pages in need of attention should be added here.
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| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
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| *Check out the [[Simple wiki editing examples|Simple editing page]] or more detailed page from [[MetaWikiPedia:MediaWiki User's Guide|Mediawiki's User Guide]] and [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|Wikipedia's editing page]].
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| *Have a look at the [[Etiquette| OWW etiquette page]].
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| ===Aggregation and organization of information===
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| For example, we'd like to list as many protocols as possible on the [[Protocols]] page. There are certainly protocols out there that are not linked to from the protocols page. If you find such a page and you think the author(s) would be happy to add it to the community protocols, then add the link. The same applies to equipment, materials or other shared resource pages in search of a home.
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| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
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| *Right now, you need to find a page by chance or go trawling through lab pages looking for protocol/equipment/material sections.
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| *If we could come up with a more automated way of aggregating protocols that would be great, maybe an extension or new special page would help? See below for how to do this.
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| ===Active Collaborations===
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| This is similar to the Featured Article page on wikipedia. We could list many pages here but it makes sense to list a small number to target peoples focus.
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| *[[Protocols]]<--see the protocols under development section
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| *[[OpenWetWare:New Lab Presentation]] <-- Basic intro to present usefulness for laboratory use
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| *[[OpenWetWare:FAQ]] <-- Needs to be split. User FAQ , New User FAQ, Visitor FAQ, Admin FAQ, New Lab FAQ
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| *[[Help:Contents]] <--Help currently resides in '''lots''' of places, these should probably all be centralized/aggregated here on the help page. They should possibly even be merged with the FAQ master page.
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| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
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| *If you know how to edit a page and you have an opinion on something, then you can almost definitely go edit these pages. *Remember that a wiki such as OWW depends on users being '''bold''' with their edits.
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| ===Add pages that have been previously requested===
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| People often want to see a page get started on a particular subject but don't have a chance to add content to that page at the time. Such pages are currently listed here - [[Special:Wantedpages]].
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| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
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| *Go to [[Special:Wantedpages]], pick a page you know something about and add content!
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| ===Desirable [[OpenWetWare:Extensions|Extensions]]===
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| What bots, tags, features or special pages would we like to add to OWW?<br>
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| *A spelllchecker
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| *A category or other way that people could quickly annotate a page in some way. For example something like the stub template but rather than saying "this is a stub" it would say, "this page is cool" or "this page needs editing" etc. If this template includes a category, then we can easily aggregate all pages that feature that annotation.
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| *A revamped categories page that presents the data (i.e. the items in the category) in a more aesthetic way. Even better, how do I present a category of page in some arbitrary formating of my choosing?
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| *A bot to convert mu to μ in some reliable way.
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| *An improved <nowiki><gallery></nowiki> tag.
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| *A proposed implementation of tags via categories has been described at [[OpenWetWare steering committee/Software development ideas]]. Please add your feedback and ideas there.
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| '''How do I do this?'''<br>
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| These are harder to do and you probably can't actually get them working unless you have access to our servers. Assuming you can manage that, there are resources available to help you get started on some of these things. If you don't know perl or php before you start you'll probably learn pretty quick if try and do this
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| *[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Write_your_own_MediaWiki_extension Tutorial] on how to write an [[OpenWetWare:Extensions|extension]]
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| *[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_a_new_special_page Tutorial on how to write a new special page]
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| ===Improve pages for new users===
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| We're trying to make OpenWetWare as painless to use and edit as possible, especially for new users. Ideally, we want concise and useful explanations for new users (and potential users). Help improve these pages for new users.
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Getting started | Getting started]] <-- give advice to new OpenWetWare labs and users. <font color="red">'''UPDATE: 2/22/2006 Actively in progress!'''</font>
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| *[[OpenWetWare:About | About us]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Why join? | Why join OpenWetWare?]] <-- give others reasons to join
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| *[[OpenWetWare:FAQ]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Tips | Tips on using OpenWetWare]] <-- handy tips for users acquainted with the basics
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| ==Discussions==
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| A listing of discussions relating to OpenWetWare.
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| *[[Categories]] <-- we're still figuring out how to best make use of categories
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| **A proposed implementation of tags via categories has been described at [[OpenWetWare steering committee/Software development ideas]]. Please add your feedback and ideas there.
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Ideas | Ideas for OpenWetWare]] <-- post general thoughts/ideas on OpenWetWare here
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| *[[Logo and Poster Discussion|Logo and poster discussion]] <-- contribute to the logo discussion
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| *[[Mailing Lists]] <-- Coming Soon!
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| ==Help & General Information==
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| Pages you can go to (and improve!) to get more information on OWW.
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| *[[OpenWetWare:About | About us]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Why join? | Why join OpenWetWare?]] <-- give others reasons to join
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Getting started | Getting started]] <-- give advice to new OpenWetWare labs and users
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| *[[OpenWetWare:FAQ]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Tips | Tips on using OpenWetWare]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Dewikify | Dewikifying a page on OpenWetWare]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Namespaces | Reserved namespaces]]
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| *[[OpenWetWare:Extensions | Extensions on OpenWetWare]]
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| *[[Etiquette]] <-- revise OpenWetWare etiquette guidelines
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| *[[Help:Contents | Help]] <-- give advice on editing OpenWetWare
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