Drew, Bill | 28 Mar 2007 22:57

Wireless Librarian Website is going away.

I hope the subject line caught your attention.  The Wireless Librarian
website now in my personal account at
http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/ is being decommissioned
by me.  The information on that site is moving to
http://wiki.webjunctionworks.org/index.php/Wireless_Networking_in_Librar
ies which is part of WebJunction Works wiki.  I am moving it to a
WebJunction site because I already am a moderator on the WebJunction
Wireless Networking Forum. The e-mail discussion group, LibWireless, and
the Wireless Libraries blog will continue for the foreseeable future.
Here is what I wrote as an introduction on the new wiki page:

	The purpose of this project is to serve as the home for
information originally posted by Bill Drew
<http://wiki.webjunctionworks.org/index.php/User:BillDrew>  (the
original editor of this page) on the Wireless Librarian
<http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/>  website. It is a work
in progress and will take time. Please feel free to update information
and to add your own resources. One hope is that individual libraries
will provide links to stories about their efforts and also links to any
documentation they created.
	 

 
I will be moving content over to it over the next few weeks.  I have put
it on a wiki in order to make it a resource owned the all libraries that
have wireless networks.  I will also be moving over the page that lists
libraries with wireless networks.  My hope is that libraries will update
their entries and add new ones.  I will break it down into separate
pages for each state in the United States and a page for each country
for the rest of the world.  It does have a North American - US focus but
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Jean Armour Polly | 29 Mar 2007 15:41

wikis are over-rated

Sigh. Don't get me wrong. Wikis have their place.  Wikis are useful for collaborative docs inside a closed community. However even there, there can be problems.
On a public wiki anyone can get an account and pretty soon your "definitive" words about a topic, or about your library's experiences, are changed. Sometimes by accident, sometimes maliciously.
I would never post any information I wanted to keep as definitive and locked on a public wiki. Yes, one can go back and review history and revert but who wants to have to keep going back to a posted doc to see if anyone's changed it? Most of us are too busy for that.
When I want to know something about a topic, give me a good subject-oriented website, run by a savvy editorial board, over a wiki any day.

JP
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Drew, Bill | 29 Mar 2007 16:06

RE: wikis are over-rated

Maybe I need to use pbWiki where I can control who has editorial access via a password.  I will consider that.  I just need to move it off of my personal website but have no no money to pay for another place on the web.
 
Bill Drew

From: Jean Armour Polly [mailto:jp-cl+VPiYnx/17xErw6vEUpQ@public.gmane.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:42 AM
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Subject: [libwireless] wikis are over-rated

Sigh. Don't get me wrong.

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