Thing 16 Wikis

Of the Library 2.0 suite of cool stuff, Wikis are among my favorites.

Joe Janes made a good point in his PLA poscast when he said we need to get over being squeamish about using the Wikipedia. If you don't agree with an entry fix it! That's overly optimistic for me, but I agree that we shouldn't reject something out of hand because the content isn't completely controlled. Wikipedia seems to be fairly good at regulating itself.

The wiki examples were really interesting. The St. Joseph County Public Library pathfinders were only editable by library staff--sort of a wiki version of our Best of the Web? http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page

I see a lot of value in using wikis to track projects that several people work on--so editing would probably be limited to people working on the project. For one open to more people the conference example was good--still limited to registrants to cut down on spam.