wikis
Submitted by carolmurphy on Tue, 2007-02-27 21:54.
This the first time I have every thought of reading a wiki for anything other than an encyclopedia entry. I liked the wiki for Library's Best Practices. It has many tutorials to help with everything from collection development to book talks and YA programming. I was very informative. One question that I will ask tomorrow night when we have our chat is how can you be sure that the information on a wiki is current or correct informaiton when anyone can edit it?
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You ask the same questions
You ask the same questions you would of any other website. Who owns it? Who actually can edit it? (Not all wikis are world-editable. In fact, I would say that most aren't.) Who maintains it? Are there editing guidelines or other policies somewhere?
Look at a few history pages, see who turns up repeatedly. Are they editing responsibly? Are there a lot of edit wars? Look at the "recent changes" page for the wiki. How often is it changed? (If the last change listed was a year ago... the conclusion is pretty clear.)