Talk:Main Page

Should content from the User's and Reference manual be incorporated into this site? Then in the content pages, one could reference a section of Walter's manuals. --Saper 22:54, 16 Feb 2005 (CST)

Saper, I had considered that. I was going to strip out all the commands from PyMol and make a "commands" page where people could flush in some content. Maybe we'd be better off starting with page-by-page inserting PyMol commands into the wiki. (?)
Tree 00:12, 17 Feb 2005 (CST)

"" From Luca Jovine: I apologize for being late, but... how about a section about nucleic acids? As in any other related program, they always end up being the poor siblings of proteins (I can't believe PyMOL's cartoon command still does not recognise the most common 5' and 3' nucleotides!), and I'm pretty sure people who work with them would benefit from such a section in the Wiki. Thanks, ""

Where should we put the Nucleic Acids Stuff?

Tree

collapsing simple and advanced topics

"Simple" vs "advanced" tasks are currently separated out, so that there are multiple places to find information on each topic, (eg - atom selections). I believe that all information about each topic should be kept together, but with many logical subheadings to separate them (and organized from simple->complex). That way a user only need look in one area to find the solution to their problem, rather than hunting around the wiki to find whether their answer is in the simple or advanced sections of each topic. --Jcorn 14:51, 17 Feb 2005 (CST)

Jcorn, I agree, but I didn't/don't know the appropriate layout. It seems to be a 2x2 matrix Ex:

• Topic A
  • Simple Usage
  • Advanced Usage

• Topic B
  • Simple Usage
  • Advanced Usage

Or,

• Simple Usage
  • Topic A
  • Topic B

• Advanced Usage
  • Topic A
  • Topic B

See? I do agree and think that the better organization is to keep all the commands grouped as tightly as possible and put simple/medium/advanced on each page.

Tree 17:51, 17 Feb 2005 (CST)

Personally, I think the former organization scheme is more useful for both experienced and novice users. Since it organizes based on task/topic, rather than trying to relate the task to how skilled one thinks a user would have to be to attempt it. Anyway, it looks like the topic list has sorted itself out pretty nicely. Are we now free to add content? Or does the header warning about not yet posting content still stand?

--Jcorn 00:39, 18 Feb 2005 (CST)

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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.