I didn't know that wiki was a format for a whole wealth of things, I just thought there was wikipedia, a web encyclopedia edited by the public. Well, we all know that one thing wikis have problems with is vandalism, since anyone can (unless there are restrictions put in place) make their own entries on a wiki. This was quite evident when Stephen Colbert insisted his audience make an entry about bears on wikipedia..or something. I'm not sure that was it, but suffice it to say, the webmasters were none to happy.
I have to agree with the comment someone made about the library wiki examples that were put up on Learn and Play: They are quite unattractive. I wasn't inclined to browse these wikis..they were boring. I think that's the problem with how this excercise was thought out...unless you are involved with the Wiki yourself, a Wiki is probably just going to look like a boring, poorly thought out website. Well..that's not true..wikipedia is very entertaining. It's just that i don't think with these examples we were shown the true potential of wikis.
I thought of an interesting wiki we could create for our library, though. It would involve having entries about issues that we get asked about by customers involving the internet computers. Questions like: putting music on to an mp3 player, questions about particular websites, and so forth. It could be a wiki where we enter topics as they come up, and then patrons can view the wiki to see if their issue is covered. Wouldn't that be cool!??!
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