Thing Number 16 Week 7

I didn’t know this but:

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis.[ Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and Knowledge Management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". "Wiki" (/wiːkiː/) is a Hawaiian word for "fast"."Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication. "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is", but this is a backronym.

I looked at the Wikis listed on library learning and found their uses to be illuminating. I had only thought of wikis as encyclopedias like in Wikipedia. Stupid of me, but I never thought that they would apply to nearly any body of information that is need to be kept complete and up to date. Now, after having explored the various pages list I see that any body of information can be benefited by putting it into wiki form.
In the sites I visited I saw that procedures for a task, books read, best practices, notes of a meeting, lists of any sort and virtually any body of knowledge applies to the wiki form. The only thing to decide is a. who can entry and modify and b. how it can be accessed. Aside from that, it is almost totally libertarian. Like open source programming or share ware. And, it take the profit motive out of the information if it is open to anyone. How egalitarian.
In schools and school libraries wikis could be used to compile study guides, list of resources, recommended books and reviews loads of stuff. The possibilities are endless..