9 This weekend I was approached by Delmar Larsen of UC Davis who has established his own ChemWiki project about the prospect of integrating our current project, The Chem Wiki, with his. Seeing as how they are similar projects with identical names, I figured it was a good opportunity to both legitimize the project by placing it in the hands of a bonafide academic and transfer most of the responsibilities away from moi, who has his hands full with other matters more pressing.
Therefore, all articles henceforth will be ported to Delmar Larsen’s ChemWiki into some sort of “Chemistry Techniques” section of his blog (or something… the details haven’t been worked out.) Point being – as things progress, I’ll be sure to keep you posted. All your hardwork will be transferred over, so nothing will be lost. The accounts you made will not be, but I’m not sure how that will work.
My hope is that Delmar will fill me in via email or, maybe, answer questions in the comments.
I’ll keep you posted, but I’m fairly certain this is a good thing for the visibility of the techniques Wiki.
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Corporate merger, labor downsizing… did you get a golden parachute?
I worked something out, yeah.
So go and merge yourself. Sideways.
All well and good, but I’m not returning my mug for winning the naming contest.
Sorry, but as part of the deal I get a remittance on all property debt transferred that was in association with Pacific Chemwiki Holdings LDT (of which I named the cup as a promotional item), which means that your cup is now property of UC Davis. Which means it’s actually the property of some state worker who got an IOU from the Governator.
To be accurate, us California employees only had to deal with paycuts and/or force furloughs; no IOUs are involved. However, Arnold isn’t done with us yet. I wasn’t aware that I need to support a whole ChemWiki enterprise now, including cups. I will see if I can write this off on my taxes.
Chemwiki is a great idea. However a similar site I’ve found useful is NotVoodoo. Great background information in organic chemistry, as well as some useful references!
http://chem.chem.rochester.edu/~nvd/index.html
Thanks. That is a great resource site also and I added a link to it in the ChemWiki. The primary goal of the ChemWiki was to supplant or completely remove general and organic chemistry textbooks (<$200 ea). Everything else is just gravy.
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