SklogWiki

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Description

SklogWiki is a wiki for the thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and computer simulation of materials community. SklogWiki derives its name from the famous equation for the entropy:

S=k log W

This equation is engraved at the top of Boltzmann's headstone at the Vienna Zentralfriedhof.

The symbols,

ΘΔ^cs

is the short-hand used by James Clerk Maxwell for the word thermodynamics.

Principal topics

• Classical thermodynamics
• Statistical mechanics
• Integral equations
• Monte Carlo simulations
• Molecular dynamics simulations

OpenEdit and spam/vandalism

SklogWiki is, and will hopefully remain, OpenEdit. However, due to a recent spate of vandalism, the main page has been protected, and the reCAPTCHA system has now been installed. The reason for installing the CAPTCHA rather than blocking the offending IP is that the perpetrator(s) seem to have access to a wide range of IP's, which are most probably "zombie computers", indicating that the damage is almost certainly caused by a badly written viral "wiki-bot".

Types of spam/vandalism encountered

• Insertion of "link-spam" in existing or new pages, particularly in index.php
• Replacing each of the + characters in the page source with a blank space.
• Deleting almost all of a page, except for a couple of hundred characters at the beginning.
• The formation of six (random) character user accounts, whose first and fourth characters are in upper-case.

History

SklogWiki was founded by Carl McBride on the 15th of February 2007.

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