Comments on: Multilingual Support for Wikipedia Services on ChemSpider

By: Antony Williams

Antony Williams — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:41:27 +0000

We’ve added German and Spanish support overnight as described here: http://www.chemspider.com/blog/german-and-spanish-wikibox-support-added.html

By: Physchim62

Physchim62 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:20:48 +0000

Just a quick update: I have supplied the maps from German and Spanish (French proved a bit more tricky) if ChemSpider wants to run those languages as a pilot. There are 52 languages (in at least thirteen different scripts) which use some sort of “wikibox” for chemical compounds, so the full set of maps will take a bit more time to prepare! In any case, each language version of Wikipedia is a separate project, so it would be sensible to get some feedback from our editors as well!

In particular, the IUPAC name will always be in English as far as I can see. This shouldn’t be a huge problem for experienced editors in other languages, but it makes the feature less attractive for fly-by novices. Again, this is a point which we need to discuss at Wikipedia. As we have several point which will need to be discussed between the different language versions in the coming months, I will certainly add the ChemSpider tool onto the list.

By: Physchim62

Physchim62 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:08:29 +0000

I’m working on creating the map, for internal Wikipedia reasons as well as for ChemSpider. If anyone wants to propose a language for a pilot scheme, please let me know: otherwise, I am naming French and German as priorities.