Monday, September 7, 2009

#18 Wikis



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A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools, and, with the benefits that wikis provide, the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

Some of the benefits that make the use of wikis so attractive are:

  • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.

  • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.

  • Earlier versions of a page can be rolled back and viewed when needed.

  • Users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

Use these resources to learn more about wikis:
  • Wiki, wiki, wiki - from the Core Compentency blog of the Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County.

#18 Wikis




Take a look at Wikinorthia and contribute some content.

Choose to:
- add a new article
- edit an article
- add a picture from Picture Australia
- add to a reading list (or create one if there isn't one already)
- write a personal reminiscence about the area or the library
- add a weblink to an existing entry

Then create a blog post about your findings! What did you add to Wikinorthia? What do you think about Wikinorthia? Can you think of any ways to promote Wikinorthia in the branches?



Here are a few examples of some other types of wikis:
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