THING #10: Wikis

This was a fun and easy thing. I enjoyed posting a new comment to the 23 things wiki
and reading the comments by others. Some of the images were huge! I thought the article "using wikis to create online communities" was especially helpful.
I do think the possibilities are endless. My comment on the 23 things wiki was to establish a library wiki which could be an anonymous suggestion box for the public.
Of course, you would have to introduce them to the wiki and what they could do with it. It seems like more and more people are willing to do things online, such as renewing materials or requesting materials. They like the convenience of doing it from home. A wiki could be the means to improve library service by those wanting to make suggestions, but not if they have to publicly state their suggestion.
I can understand why many teachers ban Wikipedia as a source. Perhaps it could be allowed as long as it isn't your only source. Reliability increases with the number of sources giving similar information. I mentioned earlier in my blog how my son added to wikipedia with some humorous information about a friend. His comments didn't add any "reliable information" to wikipedia.