I am the administrator and facilitator of a personal wiki I set up on pbwiki. Friends and I are going to New York City next month so I set up a wiki for everyone to share with each other what they want to see. Each friend has her/his own page to fill with links and photos of restaurants/stores/tourist places we want to vist. The places that are mentioned the most times on the wiki is where we'll be spending the most time on our trip. Everyone agreed that setting up the wiki was a great idea, but many of my friends still have empty pages. They tell me they don't know how to edit their pages and they feel weird messing up a website I created. I recommend adding a Wiki Admin section on the homepage that links to information on how to create a new page, editing an existing page, etc. I also included a link to the pbwiki Style page, and I also created a practice page called Sandbox where they can try out what they learned. It is definitely a challenge to get people to contribute to a wiki; I think wikis are very much a new tool for many people.

I have been using wikis for a number of other things, work and professional activity related. If you wait a few days, I can point you to the LLRX.com column I wrote for January, all about my wiki projects! 8-)

And I just discovered Meredith Farkas' blog Information Wants to be Free this week. I'd heard about it for a long while, but had never read it. She has some amazing comments and ideas on a lot of things I am interested in.

Agnese, are you wikiing? (is that a word?)