Revision as of 20:31, 9 May 2008

Examples of Wiki Uses

(all MediaWiki powered unless otherwise noted)

Community Info & Guides

• The Stevens County Wiki Project A community wiki site for rural Stevens County in northeastern Washington, hosted by the Stevens County Rural Library District

Conference Sites

• ALA New Orleans 2006 Wiki

Intranets

• The University of Connecticut Libraries' Staff Wiki

Library and Information Science Topics

• Environmental Scan Environmental scan analyzing trends and issues affecting the library profession in general, and federal libraries in particular. (PBwiki) by Cindy Boeke and others
• Library Instruction Wiki
• Library Outreach Wiki
• Library Technology Training Wiki This wiki contains documents, resources and instructions how to make wikis using PBWiki and how to create online surveys using SurveyMonkey. (PBwiki) by Cindy Boeke
• LISWiki: Library and Information Science Wiki

Library Web Sites

• USC Aiken Gregg-Graniteville Library web site (PmWiki)

Project Management

• Durham County Library Strategic Plan (PBWiki) This wiki was created for the strategic planning process and implementation of the Durham County Library in Durham, North Carolina

Staff Manuals & Service Point Manuals

• Reference Wiki, Baruch College Password-protected. Publicly viewable [ screenshots].
• Reference Wiki, Butler University Libraries (seedwiki)

Subject Guides & Resource Guides

• Bentley Library Research Help, Bentley College
• Library Research Guides, Norwich University
• Biz Wiki, Ohio University
• Electronic Resources Wiki, University of Huddersfield

Miscellaneous

• University of Calgary
• Fontys Mediatheek Wiki (Dutch)

Specific Blog Posts, Articles, and Presentations on Collaborative Tools

• Social Machines by Wade Roush in Technology Review August 2005

Wikis

• Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not by Brian Lamb. Featured in Educause Review, Sept/Oct 2004.
• Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool by David Mattison. Featured in Searcher in April, 2003.
• Making the Case for a Wiki by Emma Tonkin. Featured in Ariadne in January, 2005.
• Teaching and Learning Online with Wikis by Naomi Augar, Ruth Raitman and Wanlei Zhou.
• ALA Wiki: What I learned and what I’m doing with it by Meredith Farkas, July 2005
• Meredith's OPAL Talk on Wikis
• Step by step guide to making your first wiki using PBwiki (PDF version) by Cindy Boeke. PPT version: Step by step guide to making your first wiki using PBwiki (Click on the link).
• Sandbox Wikibibliography
• Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to the Successful Adoption and Use of Wikis in Collaborative Knowledge Management by John P. Walker, Jr. Honor's thesis from 2006.
• Wikis in the workplace: How wikis can help manage knowledge in library reference services by Angela Kille. Published in LIBRES 16, no. 1.
• Collaborating with wikis by Rachel Bridgewater and Anne-Marie Deitering. Presented at Internet Librarian International 2005, October 10, 2005, London, UK.