Wiki Org

The past week our class wiki project team has been more involved in building the structure for our project wiki. This is my first experience with putting a wiki page together and it has been a good learning experience to go through this process. I must say that I am pleased that some aspects of our page are beginning to come together as it seemed for a while that we were at a standstill in terms of actually getting something "down on paper" ...... so to speak.

One of the challenges we have encountered as a team is that we are setting up a page for separate schools within a large university. These schools' needs are so vastly different and the information required to fill these needs comes in different quantities and forms. It has become a nice challenge to meet the information request from the schools and at the same time produce a wiki page that is straightforward and uniform to a point. I think these are good challenges to deal with in a class environment because the work force is becoming the same way and librarians are confronting these issues in almost every type of library environment.

Going back to the wiki we are working on -- it seems that more often than not when working with technology, the small un-anticipated glitches throw me for a loop. I was putting the categories in my page the other day and had them set uniformly for each school I was working with. Although I had the same category names for each school, I needed a separate page within each school for each category. The wiki code looked at the category names and linked each school to the same page if the category was named the same. Anyway, stuff you don't anticipate.