[WikiEN-l] CAS Discourages Using SciFinder to Help Curate Wikipedia

[Mathias Schindler]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:

>  but you could do a decent job of creating one by writing a script
>  to go through every article in [[:Category:Chemical compounds]]
>  and extract the relevant information from the {{Chembox}} at the
>  top -- precisely as I've currently got a script in the background
>  doing.

This is exactly what Lars Aronsson has already done:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LA2/Extraktor

mathias at tippyzwo:~/Research$ cat parameters.dewiki | grep
"^Infobox_Chemikalie|"
[...]
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|CAS|68-12-2
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|Beschreibung|farblose, leicht
bewegliche Flüssigkeit mit schwach aminartigem Geruch
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|Molare Masse|73,10
g·[[mol]]&lt;sup&gt;−1&lt;/sup&gt;
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|Aggregat|flüssig
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|Dichte|0,94
g·cm&lt;sup&gt;−3&lt;/sup&gt; (20 °C)
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|Schmelzpunkt|–61 [[Grad Celsius$!°C]]
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|Siedepunkt|153 °C
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|Dampfdruck|3,77 h[[Pascal
(Einheit)$!Pa]] (20 °C)
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|Löslichkeit|gut in Wasser, Alkohol, Ether
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|RL 67/548/EWG|Ja
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|Gefahrensymbole|@(Gefahrensymbole:1)
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|R|@(R-Sätze:2)
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|S|@(S-Sätze:3)
Infobox_Chemikalie|Dimethylformamid|4|MAK|10 ppm, 30
mg·m&lt;sup&gt;−3&lt;/sup&gt;
[...]


mathias at tippyzwo:~/Research$ cat parameters.dewiki | grep
"^Infobox_Chemikalie|" | wc -l
49276


Works on a en.wp dump just as good (maybe with more data :) ).

Mathias