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WikiPedia and the Molecular Sciences
A talk given by Henry Rzepa, sharing his thoughts about Wikipedia and its use.
- Chemistry is mostly about molecules. Hence it is one of the molecular sciences
- As of today, there are 58,045,845 molecules known
- For each of which between 10 - 50 well-defined properties (sometimes more) are recorded (or calculated).
- Molecules map beautifully onto Wiki(pedia) pages!
- You will see from the above, that collecting information about these molecules has been done by small number of (commercial) organisations
- The process started around 1881 by Friedrich Konrad Beilstein.
- His handbook was the Wikipedia of his day!
- And it introduced many modern concepts, such as the information triple (Molecule|Property|Citation)
- Nowadays, this information is Expensive and not accessible to everyone.
- So, when Wikipedia started, people interested in molecules immediately started a Project.