Wikis - Wikipedia

I must confess I'm almost addicted to wikis... wikipedia specifically. I'm not saying it is the best thing in the world, nah. Actually it is more of the same: technology make us lazy. I disscussed this in my previous posts. We love "junk" food, all digested information so our poor brains are not pushed to think, read, analise, discover, infer, etc etc... Sad... yes... but we see it everyday, kids love to prepare projects by "copying-pasting" from the web.
So pitfully for the older generations "Wikis" are the big predators of books.

Said that, I don't even realise how much I use wikipedia on my daily life... oops!

I remember during the job interview for my current position I was asked:

-Tell me a website that really impresses you.

It's funny, I went blank... didn't know what to answer. Surfing the net is like second nature to me, like the air I breath, now I can name numerous websites I love for its design, usability, content... but nothing came to my mind then... The silence was getting too long, I needed to give an answer not to seem that ignorant....until it pop out without much analysis: WIKIPEDIA!.

Although it was an automatic response of mine, I guess I really was (still I am) impressed by this site. The amount of content is infinite. Regardles the credibility of the sources, you can find here almost anything with one click.

Doing the exercise on plcmclearning it was cool, actually I wasn't aware that the information on wikis could be inserted and edited by anyone so easily. In the case of Wikipedia I though it had a more strict review of its content, although they have new email authorization level to avoid spam. I guess I'll double check the information with a more credible, formal source from now on.

At one point at our Library we discussed the idea of creating a wiki for internal use of the staff. Here we could place policies, instructions, ideas, news.. anything... Actually, it would be a -very- good idea instead of feeling inundated by emails not relevant to our tasks. Hope it sees the light one day!