Thinking on WIKI

About two years ago, I helped a non-profit international organization to set up their wiki website for their staff members to share their local information and expertise. At that time, the concept of Web 2.0 was just emerging from the horizon of the Internet and most of people do want to pay much attention to it. So that project failed to keep going without participants' enthusiasm. Right now, as one of the featured applications of the web 2.0, Wiki has a lot of success stories. Personally, I do think our public library could use Wiki website for collaborating intelligence within our staff members or attract our patron's participation in our library planning or development. The real problem behind this is how to find out what is the real need of our patrons, which will be the basic incentive to keep pushing the wiki website to grow and develop.