Synchronizing Wikipedia: Polymer Definitions and Terminology is a project coordinated by Michael Hess which aims to transfer IUPAC definitions of polymer-related terms to Wikipedia and improve Wikipedia articles on selected topics.

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We've had a bit of a struggle because we were unable to respond quickly enough to a take-down of a lot of work by an administrator due to a confusion over copyright issues. On the page on 'IUPAC polymer nomenclature' we managed to resolve this by establishing that all IUPAC work is, to quote...

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IUPAC actually encourages redistribution of its work, but this is little known in the community.