It's a Wiki world we live in...putting my blog on our wiki.

This exercise was a little full of trial and error.

I have - once - in the long distant past - had access to a Wiki, after a course we went on run by James Herring in 2006. It was a rushed thing, done at the end of the day, and kind of tumbled into non-use fairly soon, I believe. The old address is still there, from the emails we used to receive: nzworkshops wiki. I must admit, his whole course was fascinating, but we never had enough time... (isn't this always the way...?)

I am happy with Wikipedia. It is often a great way to at least find out a little about the thing you're looking for, if you know nothing about it. Then you can at least spell it correctly when you go looking for it in the more 'reputable' resources.
By the way...here is an article from PC Pro magazine, 9th June 2008, about Encyclopaedia Britannica in which it describes
"rolling out a new system allowing readers to potentially contribute to articles....

Britannica has long been a vocal critic of Wikipedia's user-generated content, and has repeatedly attacked the accuracy of its articles. Unsurprisingly then, it is keen to stress that its new website will not be following the Wiki-model, describing it "as a collaborative process but not a democratic one.""

This could be a little more like it. An idea similar to the update on the Library Success wiki we have been directed to:

"Update! Because of vandalism problems, e-mail confirmation is now required. Please enter your e-mail address when you create an account and you will be sent a link to confirm your address (after which you will be able to edit the wiki). .... Sorry for the inconvenience."

Perhaps this is the way for wikis to go, if they want to improve their general reception and use? Or else it is the way for reputable sources to go, as EB has done. I like their comment, taken from the same PC Pro article:

"At the new Britannica site, we will welcome and facilitate the increased participation of our contributors, scholars, and regular users, but we will continue to accept all responsibility of what we write under our name. We are not abdicating our responsibility as publishers or burying it under the now-fashionable wisdom of the crowds."

So - I have been onto the Manukau Libraries wiki, and entered my blog address under the favourite blogs page, and taken a link from the Library Success wiki to my Bloglines account, and I'll see if we ourselves have the time to develop anything worthwhile of our own in the future. You see, it is DEFINITELY a "time and commitment" thing. It's not worth doing in a half-hearted fashion, like the "practice wiki" for that course way back in 2006...