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| The most exciting photo of a wiki I could find... |
Lurking around the web, checking out various wikis for this assignment, I came across two very distinctly different versions of what was called a "wiki".
The first thought that springs to mind for me is the old faithful "Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia", which, love it or hate it, is plain brilliant for finding information about what you need. For a trivia buff like me, I am constantly fascinated by just how much information is actually available there. How reliable that information is, depends entirely on the person who shares the information, but what a great way to get research or a conversation started. This is the penultimate example of a working wiki - an open, collaborative tool for sharing information, that anyone can edit or add to. This has had the effect of creating a resource that is many million times bigger, more relevant and broader than the tomes that those poor Encyclopedia Brittanica salesmen used to lug from door to door - some 4,505,641 articles when I was there today. Some forward thinking and innovative libraries even have "Wikipedia Librarian" positions these days.
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