Thursday, September 6, 2007

Week 7, Thing 16 - Wikis

Some of the information presented about wikis was confusing! To begin with, a wiki (Hawaiin for quick) is a website which is collaborative and allows users to easily (and quickly) add, edit, and remove content.

But who are the users? According to some sources, it's anyone! According to another source, it's anyone within a certain group of people - which makes more sense to me!

I learned that the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is a wiki which apparently allows anyone to add, edit, and remove content? I've referred to Wikipedia in the past but now I'm not as comfortable trusting the information... if anyone can change it.

However, the wiki concept could be beneficial to libraries for group projects, team meetings, conference planning, and book reviews.

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