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I am familiar with wikis from Wikipedia of course, where I have edited Minnesota-related articles; from the MN150 Wiki; and the Placeography Wiki, where I have created an entry from scratch. I also suggested to the Minnesota Genealogical Society that they use a wiki for their planning committee. They took me up on the suggestion, even though most of them had never used a wiki before, and they are loving it.
(If you don't know about Placeography yet, it is a wiki where you can share the history of and stories about a house, building, farmstead, public land, neighborhood, or any place to which you have a personal connection. Right now it only has Minnesota places, but places from anywhere are allowed.)
I also created a wiki on PBwiki for the MHS Reference Department to use for revising our Policies and Procedures Manual. Then I learned about the collaboration tools in Thing 9 and am trying out Zoho before we continue with the wiki. I am thinking, since our manual already exists and it's just a matter of revising it, that an editing tool might work better. Then someone suggested that the Zoho wiki was easier to use than PBwiki, so I set up another wiki. Now our group just needs to decide which of the three tools works the best for our purposes. Stayed tuned.
I must say that there certainly is a lot of information provided for Thing 10. I have been printing out many of the readings for the Reference Department staff so we can check them out and read them as we have time. I find it's often easier to carry a paper copy around and read it here and there, rather than having to be tied to a computer screen. Thing 10 has had more readings to copy than anything since Thing 2!
What I am most interested in pursuing is a subject guide wiki for our library. We already have various subject guides -- some on our website, some not -- and it would be nice to have one place for all of them. I very much like the SJCPL subject guide on Family History and think that is something we could emulate.
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