FAQ

1. What kind of people use Connotea?

Scientists, journalists, researchers, information architects, miscellaneous: people working with others who want to share articles as they come upon them, people who want to save references to later follow up on, blog about, or browse through at leisure.

2. How are people using Connotea?

Individually, in groups, or both. Some people who don't even have Connotea accounts (yet?) are still following others' tags, either by manual checks or via RSS feeds. Some are using it professionally, others just for personal convenience.

3. How can I contact other Connotea users?

Connotea users can choose to reveal as much or as little contact information as they like. Some choose to remain anonymous, others post their full contact details to Connotea.

The best way of finding out whether you can contact another user is to look at their Community Profile, which will be linked from the top of their library page.

4. What's the software behind Connotea?

Connotea was created by Nature Publishing Group, with much of the programming work done by Martin Flack of NeoReality. The software has been made available as an open source distribution under the name Connotea Code.

5. What's the software behind this wiki?

The Community Pages wiki is an integrated part of Connotea Code, and not a stand-alone application. It relies heavily on the CGI::Wiki Perl component, and the source code will be available as part of the next release of Connotea Code.

6. On what basis are bookmarks quarantined?

Quarantined bookmarks is a feature that we rolled out to help combat spam on the site: we mark the content as quarantined so that the user can still access their bookmarks, but the bookmarks don't appear in search results, or on the popular pages.

We have a suite of tests for new posts and sometimes we get false positives with the tests. We can remove the quarantine status of a bookmark - if you let us know we will have a look.