Sklogwiki

Sklogwiki

infobox Website
name = SklogWiki


caption = Screenshot of SklogWiki
url = http://www.sklogwiki.org
type of organization = Nonprofit
location = Madrid, Spain
type = Scientific wiki
language = English
registration = Optional
owner = [http://www.ucm.es/info/molecsim/carlmcbride.html Carl McBride]
author = [http://www.ucm.es/info/molecsim/carlmcbride.html Carl McBride]
launch date = birth date|2007|2|15
commercial = No
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::left.S ight.=k log Wwhich 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, :left. ight. Theta Delta^{cs}is the short-hand used by James Clerk Maxwell for the word thermodynamics.

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.

Context

It is one of the surprisingly few scientific wiki in existence. This sparsity of [http://www.wikiindex.org/Category:Science scientific wiki] was highlighted in a recent article in The Register( [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/11/sxsw_science_web_2/ Scientists shun Web 2.0] ):cquote|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...

cientists and 'free' licences

Sklogwiki is one of the wikis that subscribes to the movement for more permissive publishing rules from traditional scientific publishing houses.
* [http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jono/item/toc.html Traditional journals and copyright transfer]
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Supports_Efforts_By_Scientists_to_Use_Free_Licenses Wikimedia Foundation Supports Efforts By Scientists to Use Free Licenses]

External links

* [http://www.wikiindex.org/Category:Science List of science wiki in the WikiIndex]
* [http://www.csic.es Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas]
* [http://www.icmm.csic.es/mossnoho/ MOSSNOHO] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.qft.iqfr.csic.es/ Theoretical Physical Chemistry Group]
* [http://www.madrid.org/universidades/ Dirección General de Universidades e Investigación de la Comunidad de Madrid] (in Spanish)


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