What a good idea to have everyone edit a wiki. Especially good to see how easily Wikipedia can be manipulated. There is great good and potential for harm in that fact. I read an article a few years ago about a researcher comparing wikipedia to encyclopedia brittanica. Wikipedia fared surprisingly good. Good to know there is some stability there. It certainly is handy- though not always reliable.
Collaboration is definitely more and more important-- wiki's are good tools to foster collaboration. I appreciated the Library Best Practices wiki. We all benefit when others are invest time & effort and are willing to share. Like so many of these tools, we benefit from the mass of people using them. Working on my own manual wiki to be used in our department... Here's my entry on the 23 things wiki:
http://23thingskansas.wetpaint.com/page/Amanda+McConnell
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