wiki session w/ the hawaii crew

Wikimania is here -- with the SUNYLA Tech Wiki and the session currently running on wikis by librarians from New Paltz, another one tomorrow w/Ken and a Library 2.0 poster session, wikis are high profile this year.
Some ideas to consider:
using a wiki farm
Features to consider:
ability to post via email
having a page history or recent page changes
RSS feeds or email notification
editing of the wiki w/html tags vs. WYSIWYG
Colleen makes a technical recommendation: experiment w/one or two wiki farms to see what you like.
Stephan gives us some feedback:
some librarians didn't see the need for a wiki -- some people didn't want to play
too much to do --> users forgot to login
ads on some of the pages
in the free version of the wiki software, you can't play with the template
taxonomies and folksonomies problematic --> some librarians want controlled vocabulary
quirky html
make student assistants part of the wiki
need a "wiki gardener"

(Seems like the potential for RSS is there, but not being used -- why use mass emails when you can create one RSS and people get notified automatically when they check their feeds? )

Lessons:
good collaborative tool
hosting in a secure environment a must
cleaner reference desk? not necessarily!

Bill asks an interesting question about a SUNY-wide wiki -- do we want that?
Darren Chase mentioned MediaWiki and TWiki being used at Stony Brook HSC -- they are housed on their servers, you can have more control locally and no ads
Stony Brook using their wiki as a staff intranet

Some other examples of wikis used in libraries:
Biz Wiki (instructional wiki used by Chad Boeninger at Ohio University Libraries)