If only I had a real Meerkat for a pet!Adding a photo of my pet to the VU Wikibrary was straightforward, so all looks pretty simple to me! I've often thought that wikis could be a good way to allow a group of people who are based in different locations to view and edit the same information via the web. Having also used Google Docs, I think I would probably use that as a way to share documents, but wikis might be better for sharing non-text based materials.
More investigations may follow...!
Any reservations I have about wikis (and Wikipedia in particular) are linked to some of the issues mentioned in my previous post (Thing 18: Library 2.0) and the need for library & information professionals to advise their users that not everything they view online is correct. In my best libraryish manner; I always advise students, that if they must use Wikipedia, they should also check some other independent, peer-reviewed sources to be sure that the "facts" they are quoting are indeed correct.
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