Working on the Wiki Thing

This weekend I've been working on the Wiki thing from home. I wrote a piece for the Tapestry of Freedom wiki, but I put it in the wrong place. After I wrote it, I realized that I had it in the teen section. I deleted it and copied it to another section, but I'm not sure that it really got there. I spoke to Billie on Saturday while I was working and she said that she would fix it. Since then, I logged onto the wiki about Library Success and printed out some information about Online Library Card Registration at Contra Costa County Library. They also issue e-Cards for online use only. I am not sure why they do that and how the licenses work for their online resources, if their customers never enter the library and never establish residency with proof of I.D. Since I am hoping to do a soft launch of our online library card registration this week it was interesting to see what their website looked like. It was an easy way to access shared information- the pro. The con for wikis is that all of the information may not be reliable, since it looks like editing may be easy to do and misinformation may be included. I read an interesting thing online about Sarah Palin. It sounded as if someone wrote a glowing bio of her in a wiki, just before she was announced as the Rep. candidate for Vice President. Afterward, other people added and edited the bio to reflect a more candid account of her career. I just thought is was interesting. I like the idea of the library using wikis. I see this as a great tool for people to add information about our exhibits. I wish that I had taken the time to write down some of the stories that customers told me when we had the replica of the Lincoln Memorial statue. A wiki would have been a good place to store those personal stories.