MD 23 Things: Week 7: Wikis

[your neighborhood librarian]

Ah, wikis. Wikis work best for moving targets or for developing ideas. Also, when collaboration is a must. My Internet safety project might could work as a wiki - I could invite my young people to contribute their thoughts, as well as parents, as we hash out a set of guidelines for staying safe online. In this case, the wiki's ability to track changes would come in handy too.

I don't really find wikis necessary on a lot of topics. Reg'lar old databases do just fine in a lot of cases.

The boss thinks that a wiki might be an excellent way for our system to collaborate on reports of problem customers, and that's just the kind of moving target I was thinking of. We could post stills from the security cameras, mugshots, even video - that guy that mooned the desk last month, I think he was caught on tape!