I visited the Book Lovers Wiki and it highlighted the fact that you can hold a book club without getting all the participants in one room.
I also took a sneak peek at the Wisconsin Heritage Wiki. It's a great way to get information on a particular area from lots of different sources...a bit like an Oral History project. Maybe I can get our local history librarian to start up a project like that for our area, it's a great way to get contributions to the history of the area, even if it's just what happened yesterday and not what happened 100 years ago.
The third wiki I looked at was Wookieepedia. An excyclopedia for Star Wars fans...anything and everything you wanted to know about Star Wars. But maybe only those who are Star Wars fans would find it interesting.
What a great idea, now if only we could educate our public to use wiki's too. It's hard enough teaching them the basics of the Internet and how to use e-mail.
Its a great way to get other people to contribute information, but knowing what is genuine and authoritative and what's not may be a problem.
I can see it's usage in the workplace, but it does rely on contributors.
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