Learning Wikis

This week I'm supposed to teach the rest of the staff about wikis, but our schedule won't allow many of us to meet as a group so I'm writing this blog post as a lesson. Here we go!

For most of us the term wiki equals Wikipedia the web-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Wiki really refers to a software that allows for information to be easily published and edited on the Web. Unlike blogs which are online journals meant to be written by an individual Wikis are more of an encyclopedia or guidebook that is written and edited by many people.

Here are links to explanations of Wikis:
CNET

Technosight Blogs versus Wikis

Infopeople's 23 things link

The Infopeople 23things assignment is to add a post to their wiki

You can also join WetPaint and request to be a writer for the OCPL government documents wiki DocsLynx