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What did you find interesting? What types of applications within libraries might work well with a wiki?

Wiki's and especially wikipedia have become a very important part of sharing information. We are creating our own history outside of the historian and experts' grasp by using and editing wikis. Information is edited and maintained by whoever wants to edit it. Real people, not necessarily experts creating definitions for other people to reject or edit themselves.
Their is as of yet no real management of what is allowed and not allowed to be edited on wikipedia. Some pages are protected but most aren't which means that political and social definitions can be rearranged based on opinion and subjectivity. So don't base you research on wikipedia.
The public library wikis are very useful collaborations of what different libraries are doing across the world to interest and invigorate their patrons. There are many new ways and old ways at our disposal to create an inviting atmosphere for old and young patrons.
Reccomended websites and reading lists would work very well with wikis. Readers can find reviews on books or corrolate different books by different authors according to subject matter, style, and even date of publication.