Thursday, May 14, 2009

Wikified Web

Having already used Wikipedia about 1,000 times so far, I am already familiar with wikis. One thing I didn't realize is that you can basically make an entire web site with a wiki. The Bull Run Library for example, does not really look much like Wikipedia or other "editable article"(although you can edit with a login ID) wikis such as Library Success: Best Practices.... This is useful though because anyone working at the library with sufficient privileges to make changes to the wiki can without any web design knowledge at all. So that is one benefit of using wikis. I think being able to read patrons' (patrons from the same library as the wiki) reviews of books would be really cool, although I only found reviews of readers from other sites. Also, librarians from different libraries can collaborate by using a wiki as a means of communication to plan events for example.

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