So, of course, as a librarian I've known about Wikipidia for some time. I've also had a bias againt it helped a little by articles in the New Yorker , which challenges the very notion of Wikipedia, and this one in the Onion (hi-larious). These were both written almost two years ago (I cannot believe how time flies).
With all that said, I have to say, that I can envision our library utilizing wikis as an information collaboration tool. However, I looked at the examples that Sarah asked us to read and one thing stands out fairly quickly, these wikis are not exactly kept up to date. One was created over a year ago and not updated since. I know that these are only examples for us to look at, but I do fear not so much an over-utilization/security of our wikis, but an "I'm too busy to do my day-to-day let alone add to that wiki" under-utilization. The staff here at MBL have been busily working on their blogs and it seems like they're enjoying the 23 Things. They're finding the time right now to blog and explore, but I wonder about keeping wikis up to date. Anyway, this is just a concern. We'll see how it goes in the future.
It's great to see everyone excited about this.
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