New Mars Forums

1) I think NewMars is international. The fact that's in English and most members are from US doesn't mean it's American. Adrian Hon himself is from UK, if I remember correctly, and there are Mars Society Chapters in many other countries.
Of course, you can't force someone that doesn't know the metric system to use it. But, someone can edit after and also put metrics. The way i did it in http://www.newmars.com/wiki/index.php/Mars (the paragraph with temperatures).

2) I was asking for things like: Martian climate vs. Marsian climate. And yes, I got the inspiration from RobS. What do you think ?

3) Well, see the Mars article above. It has information about water on Mars, but there are only common things, not by far enough, so a full article was created, "Water on Mars" (not by me - and it needs to be expanded, BTW). I think it's wise to put inside (for example) the "Mars" article link to "Water on Mars", in the proper context, the way i did. Thus, when someone would like to read more about water on Mars, after reading the Mars article, can easily click there. And yes, I think this adressed exactly the "lot of different things, that could merit their own page" problem.

4) Ok.
Josh ? (Can he hear us ?)

5) Indeed, doing things in that way has no point. But most articles on WikiPedia are too general (and Mars related ones are no exception). There are delicate things you won't see on WikiPedia ever, because it's more of a general encyclopedia. Usually articles there don't get too much into the subject. We might expand those articles even an order of magnitude.

I mean, seriously, in the future there might be enough information on NewMars Wiki to transform it into some kind of Colonist's Manual for Mars. At least, I hope so. It would be great to have everything about Mars on the wiki.

6) New issue: How about other planets ? The Moon ? etc. Is there enough bandwidth and disk space for something like that ?

No problem, Rxke.
About stub positioning: i think the stub template {{stub}} should be put at the very beginning of the page. I initially put them to the bottom, but it doesn't sit well there especially after i put them in a frame with border. And also, it should be visible as soon as someone opens an article.
What dou you think ?

I think aerogel cracks very easy under some small mechanical pressure (like some wind hitting the greenhouse for a few weeks?)... I least this is what I remember... 

Yes, yttria is the oxide of yttrium (Y2O3), which is a rare-earth metal. 
If it's available on Earth, you can bet it's available on Mars too. Actually, I think almost any minerals we have here on Earth can be found on Mars too, but in slightly different proportions, with some exceptions, like hematite . At least that is what I hope. If it's easily obtainable (are there deposits? are the deposits close to the surface?), that's another set of question, to which future colonists 100-500 years from now will have to answer.

http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/element … ts/39.html :

http://www.webelements.com/webelements/ … Y/key.html :

But apparently solide oxide electrolysis doesn't produce enough oxygen all by itself, and IMHO it's not a good idea to be dependant of only one source, so there is the need for another sources, like plant photosynthesis and H2O electrolysis.