I have never been a fan of wikis, most likely because when I was doing my undergraduate degree it was drilled into our head that wikis are unreliable. We actually received extra credit in one American History class we took if we altered a wiki so that the information was false. (I changed the post on Wikipedia for James Milton Smith, a Confederate Colonel who shared the same name with my then boyfriend)
I find that wikis that have specific information are hard to use. On some of the library wikis I took a look at I attempted to search for many subjects with no avail. Even a simple school, schools or education was pulling up nothing. I find these hard to use, simply because I do not want to waste my time after searching for three things and not receiving any results. I believe that most people will not spend the time. I did really love that one of these wikis had a link to world cat on it, I think that this link should be on every library website.
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