However, I had never logged in and updated a site such as Wikipedia or another "official" wiki until today.
The Minnesota Historical Society set up a wiki for the Susquecentenial titled: MN 150
On the site there are the top 150 topics answering this question:
"What person, place, thing, or event originating in Minnesota do you think has transformed our state, our country, or the world?"
I chose to edit the page on Cass Gilbert, archetect of the State Capitol. I added a link to my photos on Flickr of Statehood Day 2008, and included my photo of the capitol in the images.
I also added this information to the 23 Things on a Stick wiki.
I believe that the collaborative nature of wiki's is a perfect fit for education, from student created textbooks and study guides to authentic editing of wikis used in the "real world".
One response to “Thing 10:Wiki”
Which of the Wiki technologies did you find better?
Wiki's are a great concept and love the concept of shared responsibility.
Interesting thing is I found that both in the personal and business world, that I had major problems with people editing wiki's. Non-technically minded people just did not feel comfortable editing stuff and so they never participated.
At work, we used a wiki and it was only the software developers that were busy creating and reading pages. The sales people and marketing folks just never contributed to it (literally, not once). Even if you showed them how to do it, they just didn't want to. Instead they used shared folders in outlook and salesforce.com.
Even though it's not the same exact market, this concept of ease of use was one of the reasons why we created a company called http://www.qlubb.com where everyone can edit and it's more inviting for non-techies. The downside is less customization which you can do really well with wiki's but the upside is increased participation of non-techies.
PBwiki seems to be the closest when it comes to ease of use. It's clean and like their easy login process.
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