[gmx-developers] Missing wiki pages?

[Justin Lemkul]

I agree with the cleanup and the new page is very nice, but it seems that the 
cleanup has also somehow nuked a lot of useful information, for instance the 
proper use of CHARMM36, where I had codified exact run settings, considerations 
for membranes, etc.  That page seems to be gone now, along with other pages 
about other force fields.

It would be beneficial to have those restored.  Run settings and force field 
information are unlikely to change significantly over time, so if we're going to 
offer a variety of force fields, information related to how to use them should 
be easy to find.  It no longer is.

-Justin

On 10/29/15 12:30 PM, Mark Abraham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In response to feedback that our webpage was too confusing and it was hard to
> find information, I recently removed a good number of things that were broken,
> out of date, duplicating Wikipedia poorly, or duplicating our own docs. In the
> case of file format pages, these always duplicated the former online manual, and
> this content is now in the user guide, as Roland linked. Back in the day when we
> released code every couple of years, a static wiki was a good way of providing a
> low barrier to entry to getting some documentation written. In principle, that
> content could change between versions, and stuff on a static webpage just begs
> to go out of date.
>
> Ideally, whatever web page engine we use would have a redirect-to-offsite (or
> replace-all-links) option, but I didn't find such when I looked. Frankly, we
> need to burn the webpage and start again...
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 4:57 PM Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     I went looking for some pages on the wiki to provide to a user that had some
>     questions, and I found that the ones I was looking for were totally gone.  For
>     instance,
>
>     http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/File_Formats/specbond.dat
>
>     used to have a description (that I wrote) about the contents of the file.  After
>     a bit of searching, it seems the entire "File_Formats" section is gone.  Does
>     anyone know what happened?  I can't see a reason for deleting all this
>     information, but I found nothing in the editing history about it.  Many pages
>     link to pages in the File_Formats section, e.g.
>     http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Making_Disulfide_Bonds (which still
>     exists), so we've got lots of broken links and non-existent Google results.
>
>     -Justin
>
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Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy
Health Sciences Facility II, Room 629
University of Maryland, Baltimore
20 Penn St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

jalemkul at outerbanks.umaryland.edu | (410) 706-7441
http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/~jalemkul

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