Henry's recent note reminds me of his earlier note about the wiki concept and so I'd like to point out that WebElements now has a (largely unpopulated) "wiki" at http://www.webelements.com/wiki/ ChemWiki: Chemistry web pages in continual change as a result of efforts by the users. Eventually (hopefully) you will find pages about many aspects of chemistry here - and if you like you can edit them, and add new pages as well. That's the idea in fact. While WebElements is a periodic table thing, I've put a framework in to try and encourage the build up of any chemistry themes. Editing is easy and uses a highly simplified system for adding headings, bold/italics, etc. I do ask that anyone interested might like to try it out by adding a few snippets of information perhaps. It will be interesting to see how chemists react to a wiki. Slowly with a high activation energy I suspect. The site has been live for nearly a month and the stats show many have browsed around it - but that users seem shy about actually adding information. Henry also encouraged chemists to consider providing news feeds a while ago. In that spirit news junkies can see which chemwiki pages are updated via the feed at http://www.webelements.com/wiki/index.php?action=rss Other feeds for the WebElements "blog" and the WebElements forum are at http://www.webelements.com/news/xml-rss.php and http://www.webelements.com/forums/rss.php Please do offer feedback! Regards -- Dr Mark J Winter Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 222 9304 fax: +44 (0)114 222 9303 e-m: mark.winter@sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.webelements.com/ The Sheffield Chemdex is a listing of chemistry sites on the world-wide web: http://www.chemdex.org/
Quoting Mark Winter <m.winter@sheffield.ac.uk>:
Henry's recent note reminds me of his earlier note about the wiki concept and so I'd like to point out that WebElements now has a (largely unpopulated) "wiki" at
http://www.webelements.com/wiki/
ChemWiki: Chemistry web pages in continual change as a result of efforts by the users. Eventually (hopefully) you will find pages about many aspects of chemistry here - and if you like you can edit them, and add new pages as well. That's the idea in fact. While WebElements is a periodic table thing, I've put a framework in to try and encourage the build up of any chemistry themes.
Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia in which chemistry is well supported: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry It's fully open source, but I don't know how populated in the Chemistry area. The full wikipedia has over 190,000 articles... in multiple languages. I'm not saying to stop WebElements wiki, but there is much to do on the chemical web, and duplicate of efforts seems inappropriate (IMHO). Wikipedia is currently strugling with its success... maybe webelement can make a chemistry wiki node for wikipedia? Egon
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