Wikipedia talk:Chemical sources

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I have started this page to contain a full list of all external sources for chemical compound data (of whichever kind). For now:

  • The lists are unsorted.
  • Please add any links to full compounds on sites which are not yet here, or add the name of sites which you feel should be here. Do not change anything in the link to the compound, for now I don't care about which compound it links to, it should just be a working link.
  • There is not yet a page linking here, they should later link to a special page.
some chemical pages now link to this page.
  • If you know how to, and/or can create a special-page (of the type Special:Booksources), can you please drop Dirk Beetstra and/or Martin Walker a line?
  • Most of the checking of the external links still has to be done, I could use some help, there.

Cheers! --Dirk Beetstra T C 22:36, 14 June 2006 (UTC) (changes Dirk Beetstra T C 21:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC))

Thanks a lot, Dirk, for setting this up. Walkerma 04:23, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
  • A patch for the Mediawiki software has been submitted ('bug' 7364, here). Waiting is now for the implementation into the software. --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aim of this page

What are we actually trying to achieve here? If we want to reproduce the effects of Special:Booksources we need a unifying identifier, which simply does not exist in chemistry. Alternatively, the links presently contained on this page should be on the article pages themselves. JFW | T@lk 21:11, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Nope, we don't need a unique identifier, it can also be one out of a number of identifiers. So that identifiers like InChI, CAS, Smiles all link to the 'special:chemsources' (or whatever) feed this page with the proper set (leaving all other empty), making working links into the external pages. OK, a bit more complicated than special:booksources, but not impossible, I think (or better, I hope).
And no, these links should NOT be on the article pages themselves, it shoudl be here, if they would be on the article pages, they would fill up the page to unreadable sizes. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:24, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks

Thank you for this page. It represents new input; its methods of presentation may fail and the page could vanish, but it represents freshness and dynamism to me. I consider it virtuous. Many Wikpedia pages now seem to be stagnating. However, since I am too lazy to do much about that I guess I have no justification to complain. Thus I turn to pages like this to see things evolve on Wikipedia. You may delete this note in a day or two if desired; I won't pout! regford 19:15, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Running copy of special:chemicalsources

Hi all, a running copy of special:chemicalsources can be found on [1]. That site will be taken offline again in a couple of weeks, after which I hope we have a reasonable overview whether or not this functionality would be useful for wikipedia, and hence should be enabled on wikipedia itself, or that this functionality is not necessary. Could I ask you all to visit that site, try the specialpage, and, when you are there, also the <chemform> tag, and comment on these on my talkpage on that wikipedia (here).

In the meantime, this site still needs quite some updating, it looks quite messy. I am not sure if this is a final format, or that things should be totally revamped (of course all the sites with a (?) should be examined, and turned into appropriate links). I'd also like some comments on that, which can be posted here. Cheers! --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:14, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

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