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This is a page for discussions and reflections on the UGWiki, past, present, and future. Let's organize this so the most recent posts are first.

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[edit] Mark's Experience with the UGWiki

I sent an email directly to Ingbert, but told him I'd also post something here. From my email to Ingbert:

"I do think some patience is in order with regards to other wiki adoptions I've seen. Also, the unofficial part is part of the problem, ALTHOUGH I agree with much of the earlier discussion as to why it needs to BE unofficial. (Sorry, don't remember where that discussion is. I'll look for it later, or Ingbert can link it if he wants.)

Maybe some more and varied advertising, of the wiki, NOT on it. I try to spread the word, have links from my bio page and encourage others to use it...."

From discussions around school and LEEP: Many of the Masters students don't seem to know about it, many seem to feel it belongs to the PhD students, also LEEP students particularly seem unaware of it. That is why I say we need to advertise it better. But how? I link to it from my bio page and encourage people to use it. In my intro post for a class this upcoming semester I linked to both my LEEP bio and my wiki bio. While certainly not an evangelizer, I do talk it up to others.

I too have spent some time adding content, although nothing like Ingbert (e.g., Carnival_of_the_Infosciences). I also got a few people, to include the instructors, in a class in Fall 05 to begin using it for class. The problem was that although most said they had things to add, they rarely got around to it. I think part of the problem is so many of our students are "afraid" of HTML (whole 'nother discussion!) that to have to use even another editing "langauge" is simply too much. I'm sure that is not the only reason, but it seems prevalent to me.

Unfortunately, I have nothing profound to add really. I do worry about much of what Ingbert said, particularly once we start using an official wiki for classes here (testing Spring 06 semester).

[edit] Mike's Experience with the UGWiki

Well I think it is a fascinating experiment in an evolving sociotechnical system. I can't say I expect it to go mainstream particularly fast, because there are so many issues to explore and fiddle with. But it does intrigue me that it isn't adopted by more librarian types in our school. Even if you don't feel comfortable creating content, there is a whole lot of organizing and tidying up and putting stuff on the right shelves that can be done so incredibly easily on a wiki. HTML is far more complex in comparison.

[edit] Kirk's Experience with the UGWiki

I wasn't as prolific as Ingbert, but I've posted a few articles here and there on the wiki, but I sort of gave up because I ran out of time. But a wiki is supposed to be collaborative - it shouldn't rely on one or two people to keep it going.

I convinced a group of mine in a class last semester to use a Wiki to organize our group work instead of a HTML site. Plain old HTML is really favored among the faculty and more advanced technologies for sharing information like wikis aren't really supported by the school. I often wonder why this is - a wiki is perfectly suited for the type of group assignments we have in our classes.

From reading Mark's post, apparently in the Spring they are going to be testing a wiki for classes. So if students get used to using a wiki and this content moves from being unofficial to more official, it will be more popular. The whole 'afraid of HTML' I think is a part of librarianship, where one group resists new technology while another, smaller one, thinks its the wave of the future. You see this sort of dynamic when Michael Gorman comes to our school and pretty much says we should be learning penmanship, not javascript in our classes.

I'd like to see an OFFICIAL GSLIS wiki, and a shell account for every student so they can explore new technologies like wikis and blogs easily. It seems like ITO has that in mind, but it might take a year to implement. Ingbert, the wiki has had an impact even though it seems like its not as useful as you hoped. I think we should preserve it somehow, maybe the ALA or ASIST student groups could maintain it?