Academic Library Wikis

University of Minnesota - staff side of UofM's site

Doucette Library of Teaching Resources (University of Calgary).

- provides Education students with teaching resources for ECS to high school

Ohio University Libraries Biz Wiki

- collection of business information resources

University of California, Berkeley

- staff department pages and online manual

Open World Cat WikiD user generated content added to the catalog

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Citations:

an information skills workout: wikis and collaborative writing Annette Lamb, Larry Johnson. Teacher Librarian. Seattle:Jun 2007. Vol. 34, Iss. 5, p. 57-59,71 (4 pp.)

Abstract (Summary)The Free Encyclopedia, expanding an existing wiki project, or creating original content for a new wiki, collaborative writing projects allow young people the opportunity to exercise their minds and apply essential information skills to authentic activities. For instance, individuals, classes, and clubs at different points along an earthquake fault might analyze ground movement and share their findings on a wiki. The Social Justice Movement wiki was originally created by college students but is now open to the public. After setting up the space for her students at Wikispaces, her students jumped into the project, creating chapter summaries, character pages, and topical resources They also created cross-references within their wiki and linked to outside resources.

Key biology databases go wiki Jim Giles. Nature. London:Feb 15, 2007. Vol. 445, Iss. 7129, p. 691 (1 pp.)

Abstract (Summary)Barend Mons's first objective would be ambitious enough for most people: to meld some of the most important biomedical databases into a single information resource. But that's just the beginning. Mons, a bioinformatician at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, also wants to apply the Wikipedia philosophy. He's inviting the whole research community to help update a vast store of interlinked data

Power In Numbers; How wiki software is reforming bloated bureaucracies and changing the face of communication.:International Edition Edition Jessica Bennett. Newsweek. (International Ed.). New York:Aug 6, 2007. p. 0

Abstract (Summary)Today, workers throughout the global company are connected by an internal portal called WikiCentral, which more than 100,000 employees use for updating product documentation and modifying company policies, and for maintaining their own corporate profiles--a sort of business MySpace. And for the past couple of years, IBM has incorporated the wiki and other collaborative software into its corporate products like Lotus Notes, a desktop software for accessing e-mail and other applications. Its most advanced tool, the Quickr 8, combines blogs, wikis and plug-ins called "connectors" to link a range of business documents and libraries. Meanwhile, governments and NGOs are, like the United Nations, experimenting with using the wiki concept to collaborate within--even involve constituents in policymaking. Sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies have begun using a common wiki called Intellipedia, a government-run--and top-secret--information-sharing source that allows them to merge research and intelligence gathering. And the nonpartisan WikiCongress--a user-generated Capitol Hill founded by former U.S. congressional staffers--lets the public vote on bills, create petitions and propose new policy, and then forwards the results to legislators. In Germany, the government's Renewable Resources Agency (known by its German acronym, FNR) is using Wikipedia to update German-language entries on renewable resources, part of a three-year program aimed at providing accurate information to citizens, many of whom already use the site as an authoritative source. As part of its official mission, the FNR generates plenty of this material already, but it has become interested in Wikipedia as an important distribution channel for providing information to the public. And in Canada, the Green Party (which received 5 percent of the popular vote in the last federal election, but has no elected members in Parliament) recently put its platform on a wiki so party members could weigh in and give suggestions, which candidates could then look to for guidance.

The Sound and the Wiki PC Magazine. New York:Oct 2, 2007. Vol. 26, Iss. 19, p. 19

Abstract (Summary)The "crowdsourcing" movement, in which many contribute to one online work, is taking the solitary aspect out of writing, with wiki books. Penguin Books tested the idea with A Million Penguins, a six-week WikiMedia-powered experiment that invited Web users to contribute to a community novel. The resulting work, which may someday become an e-book, contains over 1,000 pages, several alternate versions, and more than 1,500 anonymous authors.

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