Wiki-Wiki

Aloha! It's "Talk Hawaiian Day" here at FVRL Discover 2.0. So I better get going on this wiki blog wiki-wiki.

I've learned many things about wikis from this exercise. That they're easy to create, easy to edit, and a great way of getting input from a lot of people organized efficiently. They're also often uncontrolled. You can't necessarily believe everything you read on a wiki because the info is only as good as the source.

Still, they seem like a good way of assembling information. The websites I looked at were hoping for input, whether from librarians about successful programs, or from community members about the fascinating features of their community. A real necessity would be getting your audience to know that the wiki is there at all, and then persuading them to contribute. I liked the advice by Meredith Farkas in this article that the creators of wikis should post some items first, as an example, because people can be hesitant to be the first poster.

I think wikis sound like fun, as well as a good way to tap the collective intelligence.

Aloha and mahalo nui loa for reading!