Chemical Citizen of 2006 (Wikipedia, Blue obelisk, etc.)

I am trying to get my past blog-stuff sorted out – some of my unpublishined snippets may appear in random order.
I had selected Chem-Bark's post:
Chemical Citizen of 2006: Wikipedia User "V8rik"
where CB lauds the contributions from "V8rik". It's a typical example of how multi-faceted the world is. There are lots of different groups and people with different approaches to the opportunities of the Net. The WP group are fairly distinct from the Blue Obelisk, for example. But synergy is increasing.
I've contributed a modest amount of chemistry to WP – and interacted with some of the main practitioners. WP is great in that it is easy to get started, with an exciting social model. I have predicted that WP (or derivatives yet to come) will displace many chemistry reference works. Have a look at some of your favouraite compounds and see the WP entry. That's all done by quite a small number of people. Imagine what it would be like if we all contributed just a little.
The main problem for me with WP (as with blogs, Wikis, etc.) is that they are syntactically and semantic broken. It's very difficult to get chemistry into any of them. That may be gradually changing – Henry Rzepa has experimented with a semantic Wiki and reported this at the ACS. But generally if you try to get a usable chemical connection table into Wikis it's a effort.
That's starting to change. Martin Walker is one of the stalwarts of chemical WP and we met at the Blue Obelisk
dinner in Chicago.  Yesterday he posted (I can't get to the BO archive, so have copied the message)
=== Walkerma ==

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=== Walkerma ==
(I think the IUPAC contact may be Alan McNaught, and the Gold Book has been impressively converted to a publicly available ontology by the ZVON group. )
Anyway it's nice to see a chemical software company helping – in general they have been very slow to embrace the new world of collaboration.
Semantic Wikis and blogs are very primitive and anyone who has any ideas or experience would be welcome – suggest you post to the BO mailing list (http://hardly.cubic.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/blue-obelisk/).
When (not if) the worlds of chemical Wikipedia and Blue obelisk come together then the chemical world will not be able to ignore the power of Openness.