Week 5: Wikis

Wiki means quick in Hawaiian.

A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content (excluding blocked users), using a simplified markup language.Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis.Wikis are used in business to provide intranet and knowledge management systems. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".

"Wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast"."Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication. "Wiki" can be expanded as "What I Know Is", but this is a backronym.




Discovery Exercise:

1. SJCPL Subject Guides – a pathfinder wiki developed by the St. Joseph County Public Library system
2. Book Lovers Wiki - developed by the Princeton Public Library
3. Library Success: A best practices wiki
4. Other library wiki examples
5. PB Wiki Tour - Find out how this collaborative tool can be used
6. PBWiki Video Gallery - Short videos of PBwiki features
7. PB Wiki Tips