So the Mad Hamster strikes again and says pretty much exactly what I was going to say about wikis ... what is good about wikis is also bad about wikis.
And for everyone that thinks I should hush my mouth and that wikis are damn fine ideas and the best thing since the Spice Girls' reunion (see above post) - check out Conservapedia, a wiki encyclopedia based on "good Christian values" ... reading their commandments and then their entry on the origin of kangaroos is particularly enlightening.
That said, I do like the idea of a community space that allows everyone to participate without attending a 14 week course on writing computer language and general programming. It's all so, like, free and radical man!
- Patrons could post reviews (as well as ratings) on the OPAC
- Patron interest groups (book groups etc) could set up wikis on our website - posting what they're up to
- Patron could add their own tags to catalogue records, especially self-designing their own OPAC
- Answers and links to resources for commonly asked reference questions could be posted in one place so all library staff could access it .... and we could call it something really cool like the fitch or something!
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Conservapedia really scared me. :)
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