I thought I would remove the statement of OpenWetWare not for "dry lab". Several of the groups on OpenWetWare are computation groups, and most do a mixture of both. However, one difference we definitely should bring up, is that OWW is NOT world-editable, while Wikiomics is. This will have interesting implications on how these different sites will evolve. --Skosuri
Hopefuly this is the right place - Wikiomics has a Suggestions section but following ideas are applicable to many wikis - at least I think so. Anyway, I decided to give a seminar at my department about "Science 2.0" and all this new stuff in scientific communication. Among many ideas (including sharing/combining wiki with some groupware software for internal use) the most interesting from technical/administrative point of view was idea of including some CVS-like system in the wiki to have the computer people share their code, have it commented, taken and modified. I think this is worth trying to implement. For some bits of code, setting up a new project at Sourceforge or at http://bioinformatics.org is an overkill. What do you think? -- Ynse
- About the software part I don't know. About the collaboration part, all of you guys brought up some very interesting perspectives and we really need to share them somewhere. I guess we should create a dedicated page at MetaCollab where we list and discuss the different services that science/research wikis can provide. When I had the idea of Wikiomics, it was basically to create a complete and up-to-date review of all the available tools in my field of interest. The idea of providing wiki-based homepages is totally different and I like it too. There is also the idea of listing ongoing projects, and either trigger collaborations or avoid blind competition. --Martin Jambon 00:29, 17 Dec 2005 (UTC)
By the way, I don't think this article is dedicated to a list of actual collaborations but more a list of documents about collaboration. Wiki collaborations and its talk page seem to be more appropriate to discuss the use of wiki technologies for doing science and scientific research in particular. --Martin Jambon 07:43, 17 Dec 2005 (UTC)