Wiki's really started to emerge during the second year of college for me. They were great places of resource and really were easy to understand as they were written by people for the people.
I really don't want to get into another rant about this entirely, but I will simply put, that Wikipedia really seems to be becoming another social site in some perspectives. Yet, with that said, its a bit more professional in the thoughts of a social site. I really did like the idea of library wikis such as Core Competencies. Something that is really educational and fully informational to the reader. The Printon Public Library Book Lovers wiki entry is also a great idea for a book club or information to the customers that are looking for book reviews and don't know of other places to find them such as Amazon, Books in Print and other resources out there.
However Wikipedia is very useful, there are other places that can be more user-friendly than Wikipedia as wiki has its own style of posting. I know in the next activity there is a practice of posting on the Reader Advisory wiki. I have worked with wiki's before in my Social and Cultural foundations of American Education course at ODU (ECI 301) where our actual text book was in the Wikipedia portal "Wikibooks."
It was neat to actually write our own text book, and in this fashion, I see wikipedia a great advantage. Yet, as for a resource for students or a cited source its trash. As for Wikipedia's open-endedness it leaves for mistakes and false information.
Well, thats my say.
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