From the AALL Annual Conference in San Antonio
Beyond the Blog: RSS, WIkis, and Blikis
Debbie Ginsberg and Bonnie Shucha
K-4, July 20, 2:15 pm

Handouts from the presentation

PowerPoint Presentation

 

Useful and Interesting Wikis and Blikis

Meatball
Includes a list of the biggest wikis

Tao Of Mac
One of the best examples of a bliki

Wikinews
A current events wiki

Wikipedia
Largest and most comprehensive wiki

Law Wikis

JurisPedia
This wiki has information about laws of many countries in multiple languages

Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Prof. Lessig is using this wiki to update his previously published work

Youth Rights Wiki

 

Library Wikis

Butler WikiRef
The Butler library wiki discusses electronic resources

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki

LISWiki
Dedicated to various library and information science topics

Articles

Romantic Poetry Meets 21st-Century Technology, Brock Read, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 15, 2005 (requires password)

It's a Wiki, Wiki World, Chris Taylor, Time Magazine, May 29, 2005

Wiki: the new way to collaborate, Angelo Fernando, Communication World; May/Jun2005, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p8 (Ebsco article)

On this Wiki, Everyone's a Critic, Business Week Online, March 17, 2005

The Book Stops Here, Daniel H. Pink, Wired, March 2005

Wikis at Work: How does an IT consulting firm bring wikis into the business loop?, Sebastian Rupley, PC Magazine, January 2005, p. 90

The Wild West of Wikis for Libraries, Carolyn Minor, The University of Alberta Libraries' Information Literacy Symposium, December 10, 2004 (PPT presentation)

Using a Wiki for Documentation and Collaborative Authoring, Michael Angeles, Nov. 28, 2004

Wicked (Good) Wikis, Steve Boyd, Darwin, February 2004

Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars, by David Mattison, Searchers, April 2003, p. 32

 

Wiki Applications

DoKuWiki
A self- hosted wiki application which uses PHP

JotSpot
A for-pay web-based wiki service

MediaWiki
A self-hosed wiki application used by Wikipedia and many other wikis

MoinMoin
A self-hosted wiki application which is simple to install

XWiki
A free web-based wiki service