Value of the mediawiki platform for providing content to the chemistry community
At this time, and in a culture where online access is now an imperative, Wikipedia has become the definitive encyclopedia. In terms of its support for chemistry it is rich in many encyclopedic pages including named reactions, chemical and drug pages, articles about chemists, and many other forms of chemistry related information. Wikipedia is hosted on Mediawiki, an open source platform that can be utilized by anybody as the basis of their own hosted content collection. Mediawiki has been used as a collaborative environment by a number of chemists to create As a general contribution to the community Mediawiki has been used to create a number of resources that have become very popular with the chemistry community. These include VIPEr to support inorganic chemistry, ChemWiki as an online textbook and other educational resources and a Chemical Information Wikibook. Mediawiki has also been used by the author to host open source collections of data including scientists, scientific databases and mobile apps for science: the ScientistsDB, SciDBs and SciMobileApps wikis. This presentation will provide an overview of some of the chemistry resources that presently exist and celebrate the major contributions that Wikipedia and Mediawiki have made to the collaborative dissemination of chemistry.
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Value of the mediawiki platform for providing content to the chemistry community
- 1. Value of the Mediawiki platform for providing content to the chemistry community Antony Williams ORCID ID:0000-0002-2668-4821
- 2. I love Wikipedia…and MediaWiki
- 3. The Most Famous of Wikis…
- 4. It’s also .. Collaborative Knowledge Management for Chemists
- 5. ChemBoxes
- 6. DrugBoxes
- 9. Want to get involved?
- 11. Types of Errors Found • Structure drawing errors • Misassociation of names and structures • IUPAC Name Errors • Links out to databases were to wrong structures • Property errors/validation • CAS Number validation
- 12. CAS as a collaborator CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is pleased to announce that it will contribute to the Wikipedia project. CAS will work with Wikipedia to help provide accurate CAS Registry Numbers® for current substances listed in Wikiprojects-Chemicals section of the Wikipedia Chemistry Portal that are of widespread general public interest.
- 15. ChemSpider limitations • Only compounds where there are defined InChIs • Poor handling of polymers, minerals, materials • ChemSpider limited handling of reactions
- 18. Named Reactions on Wikipedia
- 19. WikiData
- 20. So many other Scientific Wikis…
- 21. Jimmy Wales does science?
- 22. A wiki is… • A place to connect and collaborate • A place for discussion and constructive conflict • An EASY path to set-up an environment for you to engage the community • And….
- 37. Openness of Data • Since Wikipedia data is licensed for reuse there are many opportunities to try things out: • ScientistsDB from harvesting scientists • SciMobileApps for scientific mobile apps • SciDBs for scientific databases
- 40. Openness of Data • Since the data is licensed for reuse there are many opportunities to try things out: • ScientistsDB from harvesting scientists • Discussing migrating data to Wikidata
- 41. www.SciDBs.com
- 44. Substance Pages
- 45. Simple Interface for data…
- 46. Increasing data with time
- 47. Quizzes: Fill in the Blank
- 48. Detailed Quizzes
- 50. Learn Spectroscopy using a Wiki
- 51. Submit Structures as Answers!
- 52. Lab Experiments
- 54. Not losing interest in Wikis!
- 58. AOP Wiki
- 59. AOP Wiki
- 60. AOP Wiki
- 61. AOP Wiki
- 64. Wikis for community collaboration • MediaWiki is certainly a successful software platform for collaboration • Scientists continue to make use of the platform – and new “skins” anonymize it • The technology will continue to progress, the concept is proven, the value is there • The best thing we can do is CONTRIBUTE!
- 65. Thank you Email: tony27587@gmail.com ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821 Twitter: @ChemConnector Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
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- However, current ChemSpider user interface is not student friendly. IT contains too much information which is irrelevant to school students. Martin’s first project is developing a simpler ‘student interface’ for less experienced users. Called a substance page, being developed in our wiki environment, contains only physical data and spectra plus some information imported from wikipedia. Also has the lewis version of the structure, important because students are not introduced to skeletal forms until the later stages of A-level