THREE GOOD ARTICLES ON THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF WIKIS

Wikis—user-created and user-edited online encyclopedias—are all the rage right now. I’m not overly enthused about them, but they do have some merit. Read these articles and make up your own mind.

1. Schiff, Stacy, Can Wikipedia conquer expertise? The New Yorker Annals of Information, 31 July 2006, http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact
About the creator of Wikipedia—the high-profile public encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/ for the English version).

2. Sheppard, Michel-Adrien, More on Wikis as Library Tools, Library Boy blog, 26 July 2006, http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-on-wikis-
as-library-tools.html Adrien [Supreme Court of Canada Library, Ottawa] provides links to articles, reports, and some of his earlier posts on wikis.

3. Dodds, Leigh, Embracing the Wiki Way: Deploying a Corporate Wiki, Free Pint, 27 July 2006, http://www.freepint.com/issues/270706.htm#tips
Dodds [Ingenta, Bath, UK] is developing the Ingenta Connect website. His article is a detailed guide to creating a wiki and should be very useful if you choose to do the same.