Corrosionpedia isn't a wiki (that would mean that the website and its information was editable to anyone in the website's community), but it is along the lines of a corrosion encyclopedia - with the words just mushed together.
The site has a huge amount of corrosion-related content, and I've particularly enjoyed the industry news section - a weekly collection of one-paragraph summaries of corrosion in the news with links to more in-depth articles about the story. Some of the stories are in very industry-specific publications, but others are in more popular media. No matter what level your students are, you should be able to find some corrosion-relevant current events with minimal searching.
Much of the rest of the website, however, is internally-written articles on specific corrosion topics. A quick survey of those finds articles on "corrosion control considerations in the equipment design process", "what new materials science studies suggest about corrosion control in the future", and "an intro to pipeline corrosion and coatings". The articles are written on a level that people - students, teachers, even non-education folks - should be able to get much of the content, and the articles have a number of links internal to corrosionpedia if you want to know a little more. The articles are broken up by topic - "cathodic protection", "materials selection", and others.
They also have webinars - some of which are free, all of which require creating an account; downloads - whitepapers, reports, slide presentations; Q&A - single questions with answers from "corrosion experts"; a directory of corrosion-focused companies; and an events calendar of upcoming (and recently past) corrosion industry events.
I've found the articles and news story collections useful. I haven't found the other sections useful...yet.
So, take a look at corrosionpedia and see if you can figure out why a gas station canopy collapsed, why a pedestrian was injured by a streetlight pole, or why a bridge in Mumbai, India collapsed.
You know, in case you couldn't guess from the website's name.
This ain't crazepedia.
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