Hmmm, after thinking some more about this I need to add: my intention in running the CCP4 user wiki is not that it should be a dump site for random stuff. So please don't consider the wiki as an upload site for a file, just for sending its URL to CCP4BB, and to forget about it afterwards once there are answers. As others said, there are plenty of free and anonymous servers available for such purposes.

Rather, anybody who uploads a file (e.g. PNG with mysterious electron density) also takes the responsibility to properly document the problem, and hopefully its solution, in the mentioned article. (It's not difficult to learn how to upload a file and include it in a wiki article, and annotate it.)

In this way, everybody benefits. That's the idea of a wiki.

Kay

Am 03.07.2010 14:00, schrieb Kay Diederichs:
As I'm the one who administers the CCP4 user wiki (
http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/Main_Page )
I'd say that yes, the wiki is made for this, and yes, disk space is not
a problem (within reason), so somebody should go ahead and create a new
article "Problematic densities", or similar. Other examples should then
be added to that article, I suppose, rather than creating new articles
all over the wiki.

Kay

Am 20:59, schrieb Tim Gruene:
I wouldn't mind sticking to the current ccp4 netiquette and adding
links to the
images in question instead of attaching the images themselves.

However, I would prefer a server dedicated to this BB rather than
something like
twitter, flickr, second life, google maps or ... - there is 'free' and
there is
'free', and I prefer to separate at least my work related
communication from
these aforementioned servers/ services...

(that's also why I usually start a net search with ixquick.com instead of
google.com)

So maybe someone from the people in charge of ccp4.ac.uk or one of the
ccp4-Wikis could comment on how much space they have available on
their machines
and whether it would be a concern for them if there were such an
upload area.

Tim

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 06:30:25PM +0100, Sean Seaver wrote:
How about having people just link to uploaded photos on flickr
(http://www.flickr.com/) or similar free service? If you upload the
photos and select 'all images' a link is produced that can be easily
shared
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4755503052_bc6835dcdc.jpg). CCP4
doesn't have worry about maintaining the pictures and people don't
need their own web-pages.

How that helps,

Sean





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