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.

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

7. WikiBox Chemicals/ChemBox Validation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chemicals/Chembox_validation

8. WikiProject Chemistry

9. Want to get involved?

10. LITERALLY Changing Daily

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.

13. Beneficial Outcome…update??

14. Wikipedia on ChemSpider

15. ChemSpider limitations
• Only compounds where there are defined InChIs
• Poor handling of polymers, minerals, materials
• ChemSpider limited handling of reactions

16. Wikipedia Polymers

17. Wikipedia Minerals

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….

23. “Collaborative Environments”
…for anything!

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31. http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/

32. http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/

33. http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/

34. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/
Chemical_Information_Sources

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

38. www.ScientistsDB.com

39. www.ScientistsDB.com

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

42. www.SciMobileApps.com

44. Substance Pages

45. Simple Interface for data…

46. Increasing data with time

47. Quizzes: Fill in the Blank

48. Detailed Quizzes

49. Immediate Answers

50. Learn Spectroscopy using a Wiki

51. Submit Structures as Answers!

52. Lab Experiments

53. Wonderfully Detailed
Procedures

54. Not losing interest in Wikis!

55. ChemicalProbes.org

56. ChemicalProbes.org

57. ChemicalProbes.org

58. AOP Wiki

59. AOP Wiki

60. AOP Wiki

61. AOP Wiki

63. AOP KnowledgeBase Hub

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