OpenWetWare:Ideas

User page / posting personal ideas

It would be nice to post pages which are non-editable for things like your personal opinion on something scientific. I.e. the type of stuff that might be found on your user page. This also becomes more important if we open the wiki to be world-writable.

We could accomplish this by making all users admistrators since admins have ability to "protect" pages and lock them from editing. This would work so long as members were all trusted, but if we decide to expand member base we might like to have a way of doing it without giving everyone admin access.

Anyone know of how to do it without giving admin access? Jasonk 14:46, 28 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Presentations/posters/papers

One thing that struck me as potentially useful would be a place to archive presentations and posters. Might be useful to be able to look over others presentations to see how they presented things etc. Similarly, it might be nice to also be able to post works in progress like papers or various writeups etc. Of course, I can imagine several levels of release like private (probably wouldn't post), release to the Knight/Endy lab (wiki?) and release to the world (http://www.syntheticbiology.org?).

• Does the wiki have a good mechanism for posting documents? A quick look suggested to me that you could only upload pictures.
  
  • i think you can only do pictures, best bet for docs seems to be store elsewhere and link - i like the idea of having a place on model where we can dump all wiki docs/ppts/etc in a centralized place.Jasonk 14:40, 28 Apr 2005 (EDT)
• Can sections of the wiki be made off limits to those without user accounts. ie non-readable?
  • Not very easily. --Skosuri 14:36, 28 Apr 2005 (EDT)
  • they can be made non-writable, though. see idea above Jasonk 14:46, 28 Apr 2005 (EDT)
• Or alternatively people can post documents in their own public directories. Use MIT's certificate system to control who access the directories and then just put an external link on the wiki. This gives maximum control over access to the author but does not centralize documents as much. This also may be problematic as people graduate or leave the lab.
  • This is a good idea for now. In the future, we could create a section on model to have a username and login for private files. --Skosuri 14:36, 28 Apr 2005 (EDT)
• Any better ideas?

Collaborators

Forgot to mention in lab meeting, but will be giving the Knight lab write access to the pages, talked with reshma and austin and they thought it made more sense to just have one wiki we could share rather than cross referencing seperate wikis. (might need a new name then).

Also, we could consider starting Collaborative Projects pages, for things such as the Standard BB strain, etc.

Ideas from Lab Meeting 4/27

Openness of the wiki

Options for public access:

1. World-writable and readable
2. World-readable only
3. World-no access
4. Hybrid
   • World can write to discussion but not to main articles.

We decided that we should go with option 2 for the time being at least until the wiki stabilizes and then consider making the wiki world-writable.