Week 4 - Wiki

Welcome to Week 4 of Ezra Edition
Wiki (Wikipedia, pbwiki/pbworks, library success wiki, etc.)

Wiki are Doug's favorite thing (or they were until LibGuides arrived anyway). Think of a wiki like a shared word document on the S drive. Anyone with edit permissions and access to the wiki can update the content. For example, some libraries are using wiki to house their policy and procedures manual(s).

Here's a quick overview of what wiki are and can do:

Basically Wikis are group collaboration on speed.

Another way to describe a Wiki is to think of a shared LibGuide. One person creates the LibGuide and then anyone with edit access can make changes. The main difference is the LibGuide takes pre-authorization, where a Wiki is more freely editable (unless access restrictions are applied).

Discovery Exercises:

• Check out some things which are interesting to you on Wikipedia
  (I chose to do look for the wikipedia page for Corvairs and learned about a few Corvairs I did not know about (specifically the hockey team))
  
  • Look at the “Discussion” tab on wikipedia articles which interests you to see what things have been removed/added/disputed - sometimes these discussions can get heated.
  • Find web articles comparing the reliability/accuracy of Encyclopedia Britannica to Wikipedia for comparison information - how many articles about this on the web are actually in a wiki? :)
• List a few ways you think a wiki could improve your workflow and/or how a Wiki might actually dis-improve it.