I have to say I was intrigued by the title of the article On uses for wikis and gardening. Having read articles by Meredith Farkas before, I immediately chose it from the list of readings for this week. I contemplated the idea of trying a wiki at work since we started talking about it in this course and I have to say that I really liked her point about creating a wiki because there is a need and not because one want to try creating a wiki. Also, I liked how she talked about the wiki administrator as a gardener. This makes very much sense to me and of course, it explains the title! As anything else, someone has to set up a structure and keep things maintained and organized.
The last point that really made sense to me addressed my concern about vandalism in a wiki. She made it clear that the purpose of a wiki is to allow collaboration and that in all her experience she never had anyone vandalize her wiki. I was surprised, but at the same time, I guess it gave me more confidence to try it at work (I haven't given up on the idea, I know there are enough needs out there for one, I just have to find the right one).
Sunday, October 15, 2006
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I also liked the view that a wiki should be created to fill a need as opposed to just created for the sake of saying our library has a wiki. The case studies this week really showed me how libraries have used wikis to harness the researching talents of the library users in their community. This use of the wiki really stems from a need to provide specialized, timely, accurate and thorough information on topics of importance to the community that the library serves.
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