Thing 12: Wikis

SJCPL Subject Guides- This is a great way to promote book browsing for home users. It is a little weird that when I click on the image of the titles in the biography section, I go to a page about the image. When I clicked on the linked title in the list, I go to the catalog record for the book.
Book Lovers Wiki- The pages in this Wiki were very slow to load. It didn’t seem to have as much information as the SJCPL Wiki.
Library Success- This has a lot of great information. It is very easy to navigate and the information is well presented.
Library Staff wiki- This idea could be a very useful place to gather information and make the information available to staff at different locations. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of information on the site but it takes time to transfer paper manuals to the computer.

I hope to be able to edit the neflin wiki. I am having trouble getting the page to load. Maybe there are too many of us doing Hopefully, it will open soon and babelfish didn't mess up the French too much. I was trying to say "twelve things finished, eleven things remain." Here is my edit in the page history.

I think Wikipedia is a good resource to get an idea about a topic and to find other information sources in the bibliographies. Because anyone can add information to Wikipedia, sometimes the information could be incorrect. Wikipedia does have editors and administrators with special powers to monitor information for facts and bias but they can’t check everything all the time so users may not always get correct information.

Personally, I find that Wikipedia pages tend to be very slow to load so I usually look other places for information while I wait and wait and wait for the page to open. This is kind of ironic since the Wikipedia entry for Wikipedia says the wiki part of the name is from the Hawaiian word for fast. So far, that is the only part of the page to open (I have been waiting about 5 minutes).