[Sneap] wiki notebook?

[Steve Ferguson]

Dear Fellow SNEAPers,
	I'd like to make a suggestion.
I just read an article in Scientific American on the use of wikis and blogs
to aid collaboration within scientific research groups.  (Science 2.0 by M.
Mitchell Waldrop, Sci. Am., May 2008, pg. 69)  An example is the OpenWetWare
project at MIT (www.openwetware.org), which is a wiki notebook that enables
biology researchers to share protocols they have learned.
	This article reminded me of the SNEAP e-mail exchange.  From time to time,
people will post questions about procedures they need to do in their lab.
Within a few days several suggestions will be posted and the problem will be
solved.  Then, a few years later a very similar question will be posted and
similar answers will follow.  Maybe a wiki notebook for the SNEAP community
could improve this system of idea sharing.
	Is this a good idea?  Who should set it up?  Which computer should host it?
What should be the operation rules?

Peace, Steve


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