About MarketsWiki

MarketsWiki is an online open source encyclopedia, or wiki, about global derivatives, securities, environmental and related over-the-counter markets. It is sponsored by leading futures, securities and options exchanges, financial services technology providers, industry participants and others.

It was created to build an online knowledge base to complement and be integrated with the John Lothian Newsletter and Environmental Markets Newsletter.

Being a paid subscriber to either newsletter makes you eligible to take full advantage of being a MarketsWiki contributor/user.

Get email notifications when your favorite MarketsWiki pages and subjects are updated. Contribute content or editing yourself to this open source resource. Gain exposure to your contributions to MarketsWiki and have your own profile in the wiki. These are just some of the benefits.

So whether you've got great information to contribute, or a need to know about what's going on in the financial capitals around the world, become a paid newsletter subscriber and become a MarketsWiki contributor.

Sign up for MarketsWiki today.

Project Overview

The wiki information format is strongly emerging as the next generation of information sharing on the Internet. The concept combines an appealing, open display of words and pictures with a collaborative approach to collecting and editing information and topics. From the famous Wikipedia to internal corporate wikis created as dynamic ways to share procedures, documentation and history, the world is quickly embracing the structure.

Marketswiki complements the niche served by the John Lothian Newsletter and Environmental Markets Newsletter. Just as the newsletters have a unique and dynamic focus on the inner workings of the financial and environmental markets, Marketswiki creates a dynamic place for participants and observers in those markets to learn from and teach each other.

Day by day, Marketswiki will build information pages related to people, companies and events that shape and drive the financial and environmental markets. People in those industries will be encouraged to become contributors as well as readers, accelerating the growth of the knowledge base. Finally, Marketswiki will reach out to other organizations to assist them in the creation of their own wiki information sites.

Time Frame

The wiki project was structured in two stages; a pre-launch initial stage and post-launch stage.

During the pre-launch stage we secured sponsorships and built a team of professional journalists and consultants to help sponsors to reformat their publicly available information from web sites and other materials onto the wiki. We also offered consulting services to sponsors to help them build their own internal wikis. During post launch we have increased our focus on soliciting general contributors to the wiki from among the ranks of the paid subscribers to the John Lothian and Environmental Markets Newsletters.

We provide the opportunity for sponsors to gain advertising and marketing visibility on the wiki web site and in the John Lothian Newsletters.

MarketsWiki officially launched to the public on January 11, 2008. After the launch, we initiated a campaign to build the number of contributors to the wiki. We began to include regular wiki updates in a special section of the John Lothian and Environmental Markets Newsletters.

Sponsorships

There are four levels of sponsorships for the wiki project, listed in order of commitment to the project: Partners, Contributors, Supporters and Friends. Sponsorship rewards vary by level. We have limited the number of Partner level sponsors to 15.

For information about sponsoring MarketsWiki, contact John Lothian at johnlothian@johnlothian.com.