I sent this message to the list, but it never appeared, possibly because I sent it from a second e-mail account I have and not the one I was subscribed to this list with. I have changed my subscription to the address this is coming from. This was my first message. Does it need to be moderated?

Greetings,

Jmol is a molecular viewer which also contains an applet that can display molecular structures in web pages. There is now an extension that allows the use of this applet in wiki pages under MediaWiki. We are very keen to allow this use in Wikipedia and I need a technical person to assist. The ability to manipulate chemical structures in 3 dimensions would greatly add to many chemistry pages on wikipedia.

The process is described in details in:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Using_Jmol_to_display_molecular_model...

and links from that page. Basically a php extension script and various Jmol files need to be installed in wikihome/extensions/Jmol/. Various examples on the Jmol wiki are also linked from that page.

I discussed this with Tim Starling at a Melbourne Wikipedia meetup and later by e-mail. This was before the extension was finalised (not by me, but by User:NicoV on Meta) and before the latest stable release of Jmol occurred. He seemed to think that a trial could be organised, but he now, quite understandably, appears to be too busy to help.

Could someone please step forward and assist in getting a trial underway? I'm happy to discuss this by e-mail or on wikipedia (I'm user Bduke there). A knowledge of chemistry is not required.

Regards, Brian.