From my reading, I see that WIKI is a Hawaiian phrase used to indicate something fast--wiki wiki. Thus , a wiki is a "quick to build, easy-to-edit website on which all information can be edited, changed, or rewritten by the users of the site". The largest wiki in the world is Wikipedia and I know that I have gone to this site many times for a quick explanation if a customer asks about a subject or word definition.
In most cases teachers will not let students use Wikipedia as an information source since so many of the entries are subjective and influenced by a person's opinion. I just read a newspaper article in the Baltimore Sun where a new site called WikiScanner can check where changes in editing an article can be traced to the computer where the person made the changes.
The article deals with corporate revisions where the writer made his company look more favorable; for example, someone at EXXON MOBIL made changes to downplay the environmental damage the Valdez oil spill made in Alaska.
For libraries, I see many positives of using wikis. Applications of wikis would be good for books, films, music and library instruction resources, especially when introducing new data bases.
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