On Wikis

Today I'm up to Week 5 which is about wikis.  It's very interesting and should prove useful when working with the UC Library's wikis. 

As part of the Discover tasks I looked at:

• The Wookieepedia (Hmm...), 
• The Book Lovers Wiki at the Princeton Public Library.  I loved the review of Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization  by W. Hodding Carter, and
• The subject guides of the SJCPL Subject Guides wiki and the Montana History Wiki.

 I can see how the wiki system works well for subject guides but I think our Library Guide platform is better.

One of the most useful parts of this exercise for me was checking out Wikipedia's "sister projects" such as Wikiversity and Wikisource.  Using  Wikispecies, I discovered why the cartoon cat was called Slyvester: his full name was Felis Silvestris catus.