Policies for Adding Content
Date Updated: May 1st, 2025
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Goal of this wiki:
This wiki is where tutorials, onboarding, statement-of-procedures, and other lab-general documents are kept. The idea is to have everything in a easy-to-navigate structure. Additionally, this structure allows the documentation to be maintained by everyone in the lab. It should be updated over time to include the most accurate information.
What to add
- Tutorials of technical or administrative processes
- Resources for learning, doing science or working in academia
- Statements of procedure for experiments or lab processes
- Code tutorials or documentation, especially for lab-relevant analysis tools or pipelines that many people may use
- Links, templates and forms for administrative or experimental processes
- Anything else non-sensitive that could be helpful to others in the lab!
What not to add
- Any phone numbers or personal emails
- Any sensitive lab information like purchasing codes, passwords, etc
- Academic projects or results – please host these on the Holmes Lab Github as separate repositories
- News from the lab, papers, research findings – please ask the lab manager to add these on the lab website!
Privacy norms
- Use ‘invite only’ links to box for anything internal/sensitive, or any big files,
- For really sensitive stuff, don’t even do a link, just a file path
- For emails, replace ‘@’ with # so that it can’t be scraped off the site
- Don’t add phone numbers unless it’s general line which are easily accessible from other websites (ie general help lines for administrative departments)
Content norms
- Make it simple - try to write in the most clear and concise way to optimize for the most useable tutorials/documentation
- Consider what will be useful to the most people in the future – write it with the intention that someone years down the line may try to replicate your process with this documentation