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In case you haven't heard the latest buzzword, a Wiki (pronounced wee-kee, wicky) is a website that allows visitors to add and edit content. The Wiki concept harks back to Tim Berners-Lee's original concept for the world-wide web, that it would be hyperlinked and interactive, rather than the generally static and uneditable pages that emerged in their billions over the last decade.
This month's Star Picks takes a look at what's in it for chemists:
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Perhaps the best place to start is the entry for "Chemistry" in the Wikipedia, which is an open source online encyclopedia. The entry provides a very useful set of definitions for key terms in almost all areas of chemistry. As a reader, if you see something missing...you can add it, or if there are mistakes, you can edit them! It is moderated, of course, to preclude web spammers and net abuse, but if you have something valid to add to the body of chemical evidence, then now is your chance.
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The ChemTrek Wiki is a new component of Mark Winter's www.WebElements.com site that sits alongside the Periodic Table, The Orbitron, and the news sections. It has only recently been launched but is getting lots of hits, it's certainly worth registering to see how you can help develop this chemistry community resource. You can add comments, information, news, molecular structures...all kinds of material.
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The general chemistry section of the WikiBooks project is related to the Wikipedia and also provides access to open source information with the wider aim of providing access to a comprehensive collection of open source materials, including textbooks and teaching aids.
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