Sklogwiki
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 Screenshot of SklogWiki |
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| URL | http://www.sklogwiki.org |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Scientific wiki |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Carl McBride |
| Created by | Carl McBride |
| Launched | February 15, 2007 |
| Current status | perpetual work-in-progress |
SklogWiki is a wiki for the thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and computer simulation of materials community. Of particular interest are simple liquids, complex fluids, and soft condensed matter. SklogWiki derives its name from the famous equation:
which relates the entropy to the number of microstates corresponding to the observed thermodynamic macrostate. k (in modern times usually written as kB) is the Boltzmann constant. This equation is engraved at the top of Boltzmann's headstone at the Vienna Zentralfriedhof.
The symbols,
is the short-hand used by James Clerk Maxwell for the word thermodynamics.
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[edit] Origins
SklogWiki is hosted and maintained by the Theoretical Physical Chemistry Group of the Spanish national research council; 'CSIC'. The initiative for creating SklogWiki was partly financed by the MOSSNOHO program. SklogWiki was started by the professional scientist Dr. Carl McBride.
[edit] Context
It is one of the surprisingly few scientific wiki in existence. This sparsity of scientific wiki was highlighted in a recent article in The Register (Scientists shun Web 2.0):
| “ | Science publishers' efforts to have the research community sup the Web 2.0 Kool-Aid have failed, and scientists have given a resounding thumbs down to a gamut of crowd-tapping initiatives, showgoers at SXSW heard on Saturday.
A panel of science web publishers said scientists had consistently shunned wikis, tagging, and social networks, and have even proven reticent to leave comments on web pages... |
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[edit] Scientists and 'free' licences
Sklogwiki is one of the wikis that subscribes to the movement for more permissive publishing rules from traditional scientific publishing houses.
- Traditional journals and copyright transfer
- Wikimedia Foundation Supports Efforts By Scientists to Use Free Licenses
[edit] External links
- List of science wiki in the WikiIndex
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- MOSSNOHO (in Spanish)
- Theoretical Physical Chemistry Group
- Dirección General de Universidades e Investigación de la Comunidad de Madrid (in Spanish)
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