At last week’s Tech Sharecase in a discussion of Chemspider, a search engine that addresses the problem of finding reliable information on chemical structures on the web, Stephen mentioned that the team that built ChemSpider organized a group of scientists to review and authenticate all the Wikipedia articles on chemical structures and add new entries for structures that were not available.
Chemists aren’t the only group of scientists who are working on the Wikipedia. A recent blog in Science magazine mentioned that the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is asking its members to edit the Wikipedia as a form of public outreach.
The Wikimedia Foundation itself is starting an initiative to improve the quality of the site. In a recent press release they announced that they will will recruit Wikipedia volunteers to work with public policy professors and students to identify topic areas for improvement.
You can read more about the work of chemists to improve chemistry information on Wikipedia in this post on the ChemSpider Blog.