# The Science Behind Parkinson's/Project Development/Archives
## Ad hoc steering group

A half a dozen people have formed an ad hoc steering group. A number of other individuals are interested in the project and may contribute to it in the future. But we could look forward to establishing a 'Task Group' to nurture its development.
Members of the ad hoc steering group:
* Droflet
* HAPE3512
* dicknick2645
An early task of this group was to consult other relevant people in July 2012 about what they thought of the prototype so far and got some useful feedback.

## Conventions for this discussion page
### Topics, threads and responses
#### Topics and sub-topics

Begin a new topic by giving it a Level 2 heading. e.g. the above topic will be typed in as ==Conventions for this discussion page==.
Give sub-topics a Level 3 heading e.g. === Topics, threads and responses ===.

#### Responses

A comment on a topic or sub-topic should be indented. This is done by placing a colon before the text:
:This is a comment
To comment on a comment, i.e. to continue a discussion, add another colon:
::This is a response to the comment.
Thus a dialogue will appear as:

## Topic 1

Blah, blah, blah.
    This is a comment on Blah, blah, blah.
       This is a response to the comment on blah, blah, blah
Droflet (talk) 11:20, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

## Setting up the project

In setting up the project within the Wikiversity context, refer to this Wikiversity to do list.
The launch date - 7th September 2012. Project formally set up as described on this page and subsequently advertised to organisations and individuals globally.
Launch Log: /Launch Log

## Conventions for the Project and its Pages
### Page Conventions

* There should be a summary giving the significant points of the page as the first paragraph and it should not have a heading so that it appears above the Contents box.
* A set of standard sections is recommended (we need to decide that this is the best order):
** Background
** Research
** Further Reading
** Summary and or Discussion
** Related Pages (which would be imported from a template giving the links to the other related pages in this area of the wiki)
** References
Under Further Reading it is a good idea to set up a link to PubMed that will do a search using the topic of the page. E.g. the link http://pubmed.gov?term=Parkinsons_disease%20LRRK2 will give a list of papers in the PubMed database on LRRK2 starting with the most recent.
There is a template for doing that: Template:PDLitSearch
There are some Navigational templates that could be useful.

### Categories

A list of categories should be put at the bottom of every page. This is done using a link for each relevant category e.g. [[Category:Medicine]] [[Category:Neurobiology]] [[Category:Neuroscience]] [[Category:Parkinson's disease]].
Every page should be categorised at least with [[Category:Parkinson's disease]].
The Top level page, The_Science_Behind_Parkinson's, should also be put into the Category of Learning projects by putting [[Category:Learning projects]] at the bottom of the page. This will mean that it appears in the list of Wikipedia learning projects.
Droflet (talk) 10:02, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

### Schools and Departments

Eventually links to this project should be put in the Wikipedia lists of Schools and Departments (and the top level page should be put in the category of 'Learning projects'). The project should also be listed under the appropriate Portal.
Droflet (talk) 11:20, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

## Project Map

There should be a 'Site Map' for the project. This could be a separate PD Project Map page which gives the page and subpage hierarchy (or network for cases where a page has more than one parent - e.g. Hot Topics).
Every page should have a link to this Map page. Alternatively there could be a template to be included at the top of every page which gives the link to this page plus other information and links that should be standard on every page. This could display the project logo too, when we have one!
--Droflet (talk) 09:03, 9 July 2012 (UTC)