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The greatest danger in any project is that people forget how to reproduce the work already done. Yet reproducibility is the first requirement of science! Please:
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One of the greatest dangers in any project is that people do not know how to reproduce the work already done, then the work is effectively lost. Yet reproducibility is the first requirement of science!  
  
* Give sufficient information to build the codes and run them on a particular problem, including links to code and data repositores,
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This category is for pages that describe your success and allow others to do it again. See [[Help:Howtos]].
It's OK to refer to specific README files in the source code, no need to repeat the info
 
* Make sure to note the versions of all resources used, such as [[Wikipedia:git (software)|git]] commit hash or [[Wikipedia:Subversion (software)|Subversion]] tag for source codes, as well date, size, and [[Wikipedia:MD5|md5sum]] for data files, and version numbers of compilers and libraries.
 
* Include some pictures and results.
 
* Update the pages as the codes and data change.
 
  
Thanks!
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Latest revision as of 16:56, 4 April 2010

One of the greatest dangers in any project is that people do not know how to reproduce the work already done, then the work is effectively lost. Yet reproducibility is the first requirement of science!

This category is for pages that describe your success and allow others to do it again. See Help:Howtos.