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A year and a half ago, at my former place of work, a coworker and I came up with the idea of ripping off the St. Joseph County Public Library‘s subject guides wiki to replace the HTML pages we had that provided web links to users of our web site. I was appointed head of [...]
I’m quite the fan of Wikipedia. I know, I know, it’s an unreliable source of information because anyone can edit it, filling entries with all kinds of misinformation and outright vandalism. (Except, of course, that while anyone can edit entries, no one can easily skate by Wikipedia’s editors for very long.) Wikipedia isn’t written by [...]
The “Library 2.0” entry on Wikipedia is being considered for deletion. I’ve joined Steven Cohen, David Lee King and others in voting to have it kept. If you have a Wikipedia account, log in and voice your opinion. If you don’t have a Wikipedia account…it’ll take you two seconds to create one. And why shouldn’t [...]
The wiki taskforce we assembled to get our subject guide wiki up and running is made up of Library Assistants and Associates with little or no knowledge of HTML, wiki syntax or web design (except for one LA who is currently taking a class on web design). So, this has been a learning process for [...]
Last night, I went to a “Wikipedia meetup” organized by Brenda Hough and attended by Erica Reynolds, Dave King and a bunch of other smart library types. So many good questions were asked, so many good points were raised, it’s going to take me some time to talk about everything I want to talk about [...]
Last week, I sent an email to everyone on MPOW’s Administration Advisory Committee, giving them the link to Meredith Farkas‘ SirsiDynix talk on wikis. I suggested that they watch it, especially the Adult Services selectors who will be selecting and maintaining the resources on our proposed wiki. My coworkers said they really liked Meredith’s talk. [...]
I made my presentation for a subject guide wiki to the Administration Advisory Committee today. Due to recent experiences with some petty politics at MPOW (which I won’t go into here), I walked into the meeting expecting some resistance to my proposal. Much to my surprise and delight, however, I got none. At all. One [...]
Mediawiki + Wikiwyg = Crazy delicious! This will make selling my coworkers on a subject guide wiki so much easier! I’ll have them singing “Monorail! Monorail!” in no time!
I presented my proposal for our subject guide wiki to the Web Committee today. We discussed the project and ironed out some wrinkles in the proposed set-up. It’s nothing short of amazing we got anything done, because it was bloody hot in the meeting room today (despite the air conditioning). Maybe the wrinkles weren’t ironed [...]
It took a minute or two to sink in. I was just sitting there, smiling and nodding my head, when the facts finally cracked through my thick skull and penetrated my brain. I went from “New Guy Helping My Web Committee Cohort Explain to the Library Director Our Idea for a Wiki on Our Website” [...]
