Wikipedia has become the world’s most famous encyclopedia using as it’s platform the MediaWiki open source software. The software is supported not only by the MediaWiki foundation but by a community of developers who build widgets and add-ons to extend the capabilities. This presentation will review how MediaWiki has been used as a container for a number of resources of value to chemists, specifically SciMobileApps, SciDBs and ScientistsDB holding content regarding mobile scientific apps, scientific databases and scientists. We will also review how chemistry content within Wikipedia has been used to enhance the content underlying the RSC ChemSpider database and how the platform supports an educational environment for chemistry students.

1. Serving up and consuming
community content for chemists
using wikis
David Sharpe, Antony Williams, Alexey Pshenichnov, Valery
Tkachenko, Aileen Day and Sean Ekins
ACS Philadelphia August 2012

2. Wikis

3. Collaborative Knowledge Management
for Chemists – Wikipedia, Built by a Network

4. Collaborative Authoring for Drug Discovery
 Pfizerpedia

5. and biologists…WikiProteins

6. WikiProteins

7. So many Scientific Wikis…

8. www.SciMobileApps.com

9. www.SciDBs.com

10. www.ScientistsDB.com

11. And of different “flavors”
Not all MediaWiki!

12. Wikis are “collaborative environments”
…for anything!

13. RSC eLearning
 The Initial Vision of RSC eLearning
 From last two years of secondary school to end
of undergraduate
 Integrated to a small slice of ChemSpider
 Introduction of more educational “games”:
Chemistry quizzes – e.g reactions
 Hosting training/educational resources
 Integrate to existing RSC websites
 An environment of participation. It’s a WIKI!

16. ChemSpider is too much…
Simplified interface
…..to this
From this…..

17. Substance Pages

18. Substance Pages

19. Quizzes

20. Fill in the Blank

22. Immediate Answers

24. Submit Structures as Answers!

25. Participation!!!

26. Lab Experiments

28. Tutorials

29. A Growing Wiki Resource

30. Acknowledgments
 RSC|Learn Chemistry team
 RSC|ChemSpider team – especially Aileen Day as
technical lead on Learn Chemistry. Alexey
Pshenichnov for SpectraSchool.
 Learn Chemistry Wiki: Martin Walker, Potsdam U.
 iChemLabs (ChemDoodle Components)
 GGA Software Services LLC: Ketcher

31. Thank you
Email: williamsa@rsc.org
Blog: www.chemconnector.com
SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams