The essential thing that I learned about wikis is that they are collaborative websites that allow users to easily add, remove and edit content. I had often checked out Wikipedia before, knowing that the content could be contributed by anyone, but I didn't know anything about other wikis.
I can see, after looking at a number of library wikis and checking out all the links on this topic, that wikis can be a very useful tool for a number of things - group projects, staff intranets, conference planning, meeting discussions, collaborative editing of documents and so on.
I have just been involved with the editing of a book for publication. It involved a couple of other people in Melbourne and the author in Bendigo. We could have usefully used a wiki for our little group instead of emailing sections back and forth and sending full hard copy drafts in the mail.
I like the article by Meredith Farkas on Web Junction where she says that wikis.. at their best, they can become true community resources that can postiton the library as an online hub of their local community. http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=11264
We are trying to create libraries as physical hubs of our communities, so a vision of them as an online hubs, contributed to by the community, is very interesting.
There are good examples of wikis as community information resources, as book review sites, as subject guides in libraries (that include information not only on books but also on local clubs, shops, other Internet sites etc on the topic).
Library Success: a best practices wiki provides links to very interesting blogs on library success stories. http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
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