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*From [http://www.socialtext.com Social Text], I learned of the possibility of emailing to a wiki. The personal wiki they set up for me by default allows me to email to the main page, or to email and automatically create new pages. They also have a "blog"-type page. When you create a blog, it gets it's own email address, and then when you send an email, it gets added to the top of the blog. I think it is set to only accept email from certain addresses. I have no clue how hard it would be to add this to OWW. It would help me in that I often have ideas or notebook entries that would be nice to quickly add without editing wiki text. I know that sounds lazy, but in general, the lower the barriers to editing the more stuff will get in. | *From [http://www.socialtext.com Social Text], I learned of the possibility of emailing to a wiki. The personal wiki they set up for me by default allows me to email to the main page, or to email and automatically create new pages. They also have a "blog"-type page. When you create a blog, it gets it's own email address, and then when you send an email, it gets added to the top of the blog. I think it is set to only accept email from certain addresses. I have no clue how hard it would be to add this to OWW. It would help me in that I often have ideas or notebook entries that would be nice to quickly add without editing wiki text. I know that sounds lazy, but in general, the lower the barriers to editing the more stuff will get in. | ||
** I wrote the Wikilist extension with the idea of slowly integrating email with the wiki. Every page currently does have an email ID (e.g. [[Special:Wikilist/OpenWetWare:Ideas]]). If you go there, you can see the email address of a page (e.g. wikilist+SOMEID). Any emails to that address are sent to all users listed on the page (thus it acts like a mailing list). I've also thought about automatically posting the email to the discussion page of the target page. However, the main issue has been figuring out the right way to deal with authentication. Email is inherently unauthenticated. I guess checking the from address against the entire OWW database and then doing a lookup of the OWW user is possible. --[[User:Austin|Austin Che]] 16:41, 23 January 2007 (EST) | |||
*In the same vein as emailing to the wiki, I have a dream of being able to call and leave messages on the wiki. This is for when I am in my car and remember something. Of course, an actual voice recording would be a lot of data and too annoying to ever manually convert into text. So, one would want the wiki to have voice recognition software to convert the voicemail into a text notebook entry. Yes, I know this is a long way off! | *In the same vein as emailing to the wiki, I have a dream of being able to call and leave messages on the wiki. This is for when I am in my car and remember something. Of course, an actual voice recording would be a lot of data and too annoying to ever manually convert into text. So, one would want the wiki to have voice recognition software to convert the voicemail into a text notebook entry. Yes, I know this is a long way off! | ||
** This isn't that much harder than the email. The main thing is how are you going to specify a page name on your phone? Also, voice recognition really isn't that great. --[[User:Austin|Austin Che]] 16:41, 23 January 2007 (EST) | |||
*OK, I know this idea is really tough too, but maybe there's work going on I don't know of. I am a user of evil microsoft products. I actually like Outlook and I suspect that since I will be doing email, I will also use the Outlook Calendar, and task list (to do). Would there be some way of "synching" outlook with a wiki? So that I could use the convenient way on Outlook of adding calendar events and task lists, but have it synched with public wiki pages? Some kind of wiki outlook plug in? OK, I know the market for that would be small. Synching with Outlook would then also make it easier to somehow add stuff to the wiki via a PDA--[[User:Skoch3|Skoch3]] 16:25, 23 January 2007 (EST) | *OK, I know this idea is really tough too, but maybe there's work going on I don't know of. I am a user of evil microsoft products. I actually like Outlook and I suspect that since I will be doing email, I will also use the Outlook Calendar, and task list (to do). Would there be some way of "synching" outlook with a wiki? So that I could use the convenient way on Outlook of adding calendar events and task lists, but have it synched with public wiki pages? Some kind of wiki outlook plug in? OK, I know the market for that would be small. Synching with Outlook would then also make it easier to somehow add stuff to the wiki via a PDA--[[User:Skoch3|Skoch3]] 16:25, 23 January 2007 (EST) | ||
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A given OWW journal club would have a focus on a defined area (use of categories), a place where people could suggest articles to be reviewed , and a selected article (voted every 2 weeks for example) being open for discussion through an open forum. It could be concluded by a conference call if people are motivated (more constraining to organize). It would be great to build a rich literature review that OWW could share and point to in the rest of the wiki. OWW Short Course
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Page watch functionSmeister 08:20, 17 July 2006 (EDT) I love the "watch page" function and would like to organize more activities in the lab, taking advantage of it. However, there is no way of knowing who in the lab is watching a page at any moment. You basically never know if anybody is paying attention at all. Would a query page for this be very hard to incorporate? It sure would enhance overall transparency and I guess it would also be useful for some of these OWW discussion pages...
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