I've had a go at wikis late last week by adding to Mark's RB wiki and also to the SLV desk wiki. Returning to them this morning I found the second wiki (Holdings of Melbourne newspaper which should read "newspapers") has a most ungrammatical title. Tried everything to change it but the wiki help pages advise that I can't change the name. That can't be right. I shall run this past Lynette and see if I can remedy this.
This exercise in posting wikis has shown it doesn't take a great deal to be able to do this but I'm wondering about the look of a wiki. A cut-and-paste job from an existing word document seems to be a very basic effort and ok for now but longer term, should more be done to standardise its look? Like some form of template? This wouldn't be hard to do but would that be going back to the bad old days of time-consuming editing on behalf of 1 or 2 people who are given higher level editing privileges?
Our procedures already have a standard template so that's pretty much taken care of, but there is a great deal of information for information desks around the library that we can migrate to a desk wiki.
I like the wiki's ease of use. It would be a cinch to edit/update information.
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There are some features on a wiki that can be locked down. (sounds like the title feature is one on the SLV wiki)
Wikis use a simplified html scripting and unless your know how to change this scripting using the specific codes, your wiki remains very simple. If your look at the wikipedia help pages and editing pages you will see they have suggested formatting fo their wiki., but I wonder how many people actually read it!
Lynette
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