ABOUT WIKIS LIBRARIES AND WIKIS Libraries using wikis Subject/research guides Knowledge sharing Training/teaching Internal communication and documentation Website content management Projects Others Wikis for librarians Other wikis of interest Librarians blogging about wikis GENERAL WIKI RESOURCES Lists of wiki software (wiki engines) Lists of hosted wikis (wiki farms) Wiki comparisons Articles and blog posts Other wiki online resources

 

ABOUT WIKIS

• Wiki - from Wikipedia
• Matias, Nathan. What is a Wiki?. From SitePoint.com
• Brain, Marshall. How Wikis Work. From HowStuffWorks.com

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LIBRARIES AND WIKIS

 

Libraries using wikis

 

Subject/research guides

• Biz Wiki - Ohio University Libraries business information resources (Mediawiki)
• St. Joseph County Public Library Subject Guides (Mediawiki)

 

Knowledge sharing

• Butler WikiRef - Butler University Libraries' Reference Wiki (Seedwiki)

 

Training/teaching

• Antioch New England Graduate School's Library Training Manual - for front desk staff (Seedwiki)
• Language of Nature Research Tools - Antioch New England Graduate School's Library, used for an IL class (Seedwiki)

 

Internal communication and documentation

• University of Connecticut Libraries Staff Wiki (Mediawiki)
• University of Minnesota Libraries Staff Website (Pmwiki)
• Vanderbilt University Library Information Technology Services Wiki

 

Website content management

• Gregg-Graniteville Library - University of South Carolina - Aiken (Pmwiki)

 

Projects

• MIT Engineering and Science Libraries B-Team (Seedwiki)

 

Others

• List of library wikis - from LIS Wiki

 

 

Wikis for librarians

• Library Instruction Wiki (Mediawiki)
• Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - "one-stop-shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians" (Mediawiki)
• LIS Wiki - library and information science encyclopedia (Mediawiki)
• Digiwik: The Digitization Wiki - repository of digitization information for use by individuals, museums, libraries, researchers, and any other entities with digitization needs (Mediawiki)
• LibLand - "This wiki gives new librarians and library school students a place to find information and a place to add information about libraries, library school, the American Library Association (ALA) and what it's like to be a new librarian."

 

 

Other wikis of interest

• South Carolina Library Association (Pmwiki)
• Information Technology Special Interest Group - Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (Pmwiki)
• GSLIS Wiki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Mediawiki)
• NEMLA Directory of Music Libraries draft (Seedwiki)

 

 

Librarians blogging about wikis

• Using wikis for collaborative company research - Library Voice (6/8/2006)
• More Mediawiki Mayhem - Library Web Chic (6/5/2006)
• Adding a WYSIWYG editor to Mediawiki (part II) - Library Web Chic (5/25/2006)
• Wikis in the University Library - by Michael Stephens on ALA TechSource (5/22/2006); interview with Chad Boeninger, Reference & Instruction Librarian at Ohio University
• Moving Mediawiki to a production server - Library Web Chic (5/17/2006)
• Extending Mediawiki - Library Web Chic (5/8/2006)
• Installing a WYSIWYG editor in MediaWiki - Library Web Chic (5/1/2006)
• Wikiperiments - Library Web Chic (4/20/2006)
• Wikis for the rest of us - from Digital Reference (2/3/2006)
• Wiki Woes - from The Industrial Librarian (1/25/2006)
• SJCPL's Subject Guide Wiki - from dave's blog (12/8/2005)
• Wikis as handouts - from Digital Reference (11/13/2005)
• Our reference wiki and online tutorials - from Digital Reference (10/28/2005)
• PBWiki - from See Also (10/13/2005)
• Where I've been lately - from Digital Reference (9/30/2005)

 

 

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GENERAL WIKI RESOURCES

 

Lists of wiki software (wiki engines)

• List of wiki software - from Wikipedia
• Wiki Engines - from WikiWikiWeb
• Top Ten Wiki Engines - from WikiWikiWeb
• Wiki Engine Popularity - from WikiWikiWeb, wiki engines ranked by number of Google search results
• Wiki Choicetree - from WikiWikiWeb, wiki engines sorted by features

 

 

Lists of hosted wikis (wiki farms)

• List of wiki farms - from Wikipedia
• Wiki Farms - from WikiWikiWeb

 

 

Wiki comparisons

• WikiMatrix - interactive comparison chart (you choose the software to compare)
• Comparison of wiki software - from Wikipedia
• Comparing Wikis - from WikkiTikkiTavi
• Challborn, C. & Reimann, T. (2005, July). Wiki products: A comparison. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 6(2).

 

 

Articles and blog posts

• WikiBibliography - a list of articles I've compiled about wikis
• Choosing a wiki - from WikiWikiWeb
• How to Start a Wiki - from Wikibooks
• Getting Your Wiki Adopted

 

 

 

Other wiki online resources

• WikiMatrix - in addition to an interactive wiki software comparison chart, this site also features a discussion forum about wikis
• RecentChanges.Info - "all things .wiki" blog
• wikiSquared - blog
• WikiLand
• International Symposium on Wikis
• HTML::WikiConverter - convert HTML to wiki markup
• Wikis - Virtual Reference Special Interest Group (related blog post)

 

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Compiled by Angela Kille