#16 - Learn about Wikis

A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools.
Some of the benefits that make the use of wikis so attractive are:
Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
Users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.
Libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis, etc Two libraries with wiki sites are,.
The U. Conn. Library has a wiki site for library staff,
,http://wiki.lib.uconn.edu/index.php/Main_Page
This Wiki was created to help maintain the large amount of documentation. The Wiki makes all of library’s documentation searchable, and allows easy access for anyone in the library to edit the information when necessary.
Another wiki site is the Albany County public library,
http://albystaff.pbworks.com/w/page/1693188/FrontPage
This web site documents how to do things for library staff. All staff can edit it.
Some of the information in this site are:
Technical services, public services, children's, circulation, training information, etc.
The above two sites show that information of various subjects can be included in a library's wiki site and all staff can  participate in editing the contents to make them better.