That's a great looking wiki you've got there...

Ah, November 12, watching Caillou's Holiday Movie, an intelligently concocted movie that shows all of our traditional Christmas pop culture.
I like the Library Success wiki. I found out that U of Ottawa starts a Master's in Information Science next fall, bilingual though. I found out about online courses I could take when this is through to continue my learning. There is lots of terrific links and ideas on this wiki. It is very controlled as well. I remember reading a while back that on Wikipedia, they had to shut down Bob Rae and Michael Ignatieff's entries because people were constantly editing them in their rivalry for the Liberal leadership last time. The speculation was that their own people were changing them to make the one sound better than the other. Am I the only one that misses Paul Martin? It shows the dangers of a true wiki, but it does seem that there is someone out there to watch out for these things.

If I'm doing a dissertation for my PhD. do I want a wiki? No, but in real life when someone asks the difference between yams and sweet potatoes for their farm market stall, well sure, then a wiki is great. To me, that says it all, wikis are easy to read, in real language for the most part and interesting. Are they completely reliable, maybe not, but again, if I am just looking for common information, that's a risk I am prepared to take.

I visited the Community Wiki briefly but wasn't drawn into it and moved on right away. Library success has a nice list of topics that are easy to navigate. I also looked at the mfagan wiki and thought it was cool to find stuff about my beloved St. Jacobs. But it was just copies of pamphlet maps I have seen for years. If I lived far away, that might be useful, but here, don't really need a map of the streets there.

The Waterloo Way was cool, I liked that it was asking for articles for some people and I liked that there were some older people on there too, but wait, all men? Is that a reflection of our entire society or just those that contribute to these things? Shouldn't they at least be asking for articles about female entrepreneurs?

I'm not sure where this fits in, but I know when I go to the Canadian Tire website, I like to read the reviews by people who have bought the product and see what they think. Sometimes I see that the person has had the thing for two years and it has fallen apart, or that it didn't leak in the rain or that they love it, but it took six people to put it together. I guess I'd like to see that for books too, especially people in Canada's thoughts and really I would like to know if anyone has been able to get through Thackeray's Vanity Fair in one try or even two. (I once offered anyone in my residence floor $10.00 if they could read it in two months, but no one could. I don't take risks like that with library folks though.) That's what would be so cool about a review feature on our own website. It would be local for the most part, and the reviews would be by people who live a lot like me, and have the same book selection, or movie selection as I do. It would give us another opportunity to connect with each other. I would love to know what kind of books Lois J. reads and likes...for instance.