Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Thing #16: Wikis

As far as applications within a library system, I suspect that a Wiki would not be of much use, as Wikis require a relatively large amount of manpower to establish and maintain to any degree of usefulness. The very nature of a Wiki requires a large degree of multi-user collaboration (or a small number of editors working very regularly).

For a functional and useful Wiki to be established for an environment such as a library system, it would have to be either maintained by a capable team of library staff (who can regularly dedicate time and effort to the Wiki's maintenance) or open to public input (and thus easily vandalized or filled with inaccurate information, intentionally or not, thus increasing the need for moderation, and library staff manpower to be expended on it).

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