Thing 10: Bunny explores wikis

I am really drawn to the idea of using a wiki for subject guides, like the St. Joseph County Public Library. Our library has lots of subject guides. I could see that this would be useful to our researchers. The book lovers wiki is very attractive. I found much useful information on the Library Success wiki, structured in such a way that I could find topics of interest. I didn't find the Library Bloggers Wiki either terribly useful or interesting.

There was quite a range in the Minnesota wikis. The Educational Heritage Project seems to be very well developed, one of the advantages of having a limited but committed group working on the project. MPR's Minnewiki has some good information, but many of the articles are stubs. That's a good way to start a wiki and try to attract others to add and enhance the information. There was almost nothing to the Beekeeping in Minnesota wiki -- just a page linking to a national wiki. The MN 150 wiki obviously had a lot of web development, which shows in the more sophisticated presentation and layout as well as the completeness and organization of entries.

I left a comment on the 23 things on a stick wiki but found it like a messy scrapbook.

I did some editing and added an entry on placeography, a house and building wiki .http://www.placeography.org/ I added an entry about the John F. Eisenmenger house: http://www.placeography.org/index.php?title=John_F._Eisenmenger_house%2C_1015_Mound_Street%2C_Saint_Paul%2C_Minnesota_%28Razed%29

I can see the potential for collaboration using wikis to share knowledge with others. Libraries can use them both internally for planning and publicly to provide information to their clientele and engage library users in sharing their knowledge, ideas, and opinions.