[chemweb] Chemistry Wiki

[Mark Winter]

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

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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 at sheffield.ac.uk
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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/