On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:36:29AM +0000, 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. -- D. Joe Anderson, Asst. Sci. 2252 Molecular Biology Bldg Biochem, Biophys, & Mol Bio Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50010 Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text http://expita.com/nomime.html
