Learning about Wikis was interesting as I dont know too much about them. This new techology has allowed us to provide each other as human beings with information, knowledge and facts as well as a normal human being rather than a fancy academic to put information on the net.
Wikis can allow us to have various information, it also helps libraries like our selves limit our information to what we would like to publish, keep and deliver.
When watching the video about wikipedia, Uni and high school teachers and lectures always told us to not use wikipedia because it is not a relible source! However if i didn't understand something I would always use wikipedia as a reference for my self. As a univerisity student wikipedia is like an electronic assignment that constantly needs referencing and may i say referencing is so annoying and time consuming!
a major issue that i found with Wikipedia is that Published opinions are important however some issues can be bias and declines the purpose of having a neutral communication like what wikipedia aims to do!
As for libraries... I think having a wiki's page for where internal staff can place new events, updates and profiles about library services and information that different individuals are not neccessarily aware of.
People internally can edit, post new things about what they are doing as there everyday jobs that hehlps the functions of a library.
http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/poll-results-wiki-use.jpg
Interesting Statistic :
Australian Bureau of Statistics embraces world of blogs and wikis: (the australian article)
Although purely internal, about 30 per cent of its 3000-odd employees have started creating their own wikis and blog pages on the ABS's intranet.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/australian-bureau-of-statistics-embraces-world-of-blogs-and-wikis/story-e6frgakx-1225906055742
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