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overunity33

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New Synthesis Wiki
« on: July 07, 2012, 09:06:16 PM »
So what do you guys think of a wiki style site? It would be offshore and invite only.  It would be in the wiki format to make information easier to parse through and anyone who is deemed worth can edit.

Categories so far:

Compounds
Reactions
Natural Products
Organisms


pages will be crosslinked wiki style and contain (for compounds)
drawings, physical information, solubilities, etc
possible reactions, precursors, links to analogs, references

Members will be able to dump the wiki into a down loadable html file for their own uses so all this hard work will never be lost.


Thoughts? Criticisms? Advice?

Tsathoggua

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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2012, 12:14:48 AM »
Fucking great idea!

*gives honey*

There should be some sort of a peer review system in effect...come to think of it...what about the idea of a peer-reviewed journal?
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overunity33

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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2012, 01:17:01 AM »
It would be pretty easy to allow members to *ADD* to a wiki page but only replace content after a vote/admin approval.  This would in a way be a peer review system.  Once information has been peer reviewed/voted/on/approved a green box can appear around it or something.  Really like that!

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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2012, 02:30:00 AM »
Sounds like a great idea  ;D

At the end of each page there could be links that would lead to different steps.

Ex: Mescaline synthesis page would have a link at the bottom to 2c-b

If its something you could put into action i think it would be very promising.

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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2012, 06:32:41 AM »
A great idea but apparently hard to do, there's was bit of talk about it here a while back in the Forum matters thread

Have a look to see the arguments presented.
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carl_nnabis

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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2012, 07:25:53 AM »
would bee very great, i could and would contribute, maybe im helpful for some nitroalkene and -alcohol information, further processing to their amines too! would bee glad to do so ;D
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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2012, 11:07:33 AM »
I think it would be a great idea. I was always of the opinion that forums are not the best method of sharing information. I think we all know the feeling where there is a post with some great info somewhere but you can never find the small section of some loosly related thread where it is presented.

 It should be relativly straightforward to allow file uploads. That would allow members to upload the original references to support claims

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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2012, 11:50:27 AM »
I can of course see the advantages with an idea like this. Like carl said, some things tend to get lost in massive threads with all the ranting that takes place there.
But isn´t the rantings back and forth a prerequisite for the topic at hand to take a leap forward?

There is a danger a place like an invite-only wiki would be nothing more then a mutual admiration society.
That there would not be much new ideas because a new way of thinking is often the offspring of a good discussion between likeminded souls with the same burning desire. In fact the danger is this wont resault in anything else but a wiki of what you already know.
If so, that would not be all bad though.

Another idea would be to have harder moderation. I mean in that sense that the moderators of places like this cleans up the threads in a V2.0 thats linked in the original thread. In the V2.0 only the facts would have a place, not the discussions that lead to the facts. This though would be a pain in the ass for moderators, bye bye social life...
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Tsathoggua

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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2012, 01:18:45 PM »
Invite only seems counterproductive, this sort of enterprise should bee by the the swarm, for the swarm, in the best interests of the swarm. Needs to bee done carefully.
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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2012, 07:36:09 PM »
There are already wikis out there like this.

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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2012, 12:53:02 AM »
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Re: New Synthesis Wiki
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2012, 02:07:01 AM »
yeah but we´ve meant a special one for the clandestine people, that was at least what i was thinking
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