It is rather interesting to play around with our own wiki pages and this has given us a chance to look at the other side of what wikis entail. I have to say, if you restrict the users who are able to change entries into a wiki, this makes them a valuable resource with a number of applications over a broad span of areas. As nice as it sounds to allow access to everyone, not everyone is serious about a topic and way too many people think it’s funny to sabotage publically accessible sites. Allowing anyone to view but only certain people to change looks like it would be the best option as far as accuracy is concerned. (another pet peeve of mine)
It also depends on who is using the wiki and its topic. At one point we were considering a wiki for our tech services manual at my main job at Creighton’s Law Library. We eventually decided not to because we couldn’t get enough space for some of our files for things such as labels and we had a great number of screenshot images for our documented procedures. We decided to go with our Angel system for the university, but if we were able to have enough space, a wiki would have been ideal.
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