I edited the 23 Things wiki by adding Jenny Levine's line: "Life is all about having more fun than you can think of and it starts at the library."
I participated in a class wiki in Joyce Yukawa's Intro to Reference and Online Services class at St. Kate's in fall 2006. Our class shared search strategies for the course exercises. It is a really useful tool for creating community; collectively the members were able to create something much better than each would have been able to do individually.
Wikis can be really helpful in a workplace where folks can't easily meet face-to-face. They can preserve the wisdom of those with more experience and help orient newer folks to institutional procedures and ethos. They are living documents, unlike printed manuals, so they can be easily updated as needed. And they can be portals to other wikis/websites. I also like the democratic ideal of a wiki; everyone can contribute and benefit from a collective project. Why should each person reinvent the wheel. Wikis let us pool our knowledge, reduce redundancy, and improve efficiency! Wiki on!
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