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From The Shifted Librarian Meredith Farkas' Wiki Presentation at ALA

Wikis are not a one-size fits all solution

Wikis are a lot like a content management system - lets lots of people Collaborate on a website

No reason you have to know HTML to edit a wiki, although you can use HTML

Easier to update subject guides because you can immediately modify them

started the ALA Annual wiki for the Chicago 2005 conference because she didn't know much about the conference or about Chicago

hundreds of people contributed

Intuit, IBM, car companies are all creating internal wikis but also to communicate with their customers

can build great, collaborative resources

All wikis start out as a single page

The way you add a new page is to create a hyperlink on the home page

Can then start adding content

Discussion pages for talking about issues related to the wiki

Good place to note if you are going to delete something

Some wiki software offers threaded comments - coming to mediawiki

History pages show every single version of each page

Recent changes page is the one that shows all of the changes - watch this for spam

Differences between wikis and blogs:

• when someone writes a blog post, they own that post; on a wiki, anyone can edit what you wrote
• in a blog, all posts are organized by reverse-chronological order; in a wiki can use any organizational scheme
• blog posts are permanent, even though they can be edited, don't normally edit them, though; wikis are constantly a work in progress
• blog posts are great for having a dialogue in the comments, but wikis really level the playing field

why wiki:

- easy to use

- web-based

- anyone can make changes

- findability

- many free and open-source wikis

- flexible and extensible

• What can you do with a wiki? Take a tour and use pre-made templates

• Learn how to use bold, italics, tables, and more: The wiki style page

• Share this wiki with others. It's easy