My thoughts on wikis

Well, I must admit I don't have a lot of experience working with wikis. I am on the CAPL executive and we did create a wiki using MediaWiki as a way of gathering together numerous articles that would be relevant to public libraries. It worked fine, but really was not the best product for what we needed. After a couple of years, we moved the site to WordPress, which does work better as a central information resource -- the site is Public Libraries Building Capacity and is at www.clatoolbox.ca/caplblog if you want to take a look.

As a tool for working collaboratively on a project or for bringing things together that you want to all access, I think that wikis can work well. I agree, though, with other comments people have made about knowing which tool to use for which job. When do you use a wiki? When do you use a blog? When do you use Google Docs? I'm still not sure about it. The 23 Things wiki child page on the benefits of using wikis is really like a blog, with comments and replies -- does a wiki make sense for that?

Lots of ramblings, not a lot of answers.