There are worse things than having users put drivvle on your wiki. What if you had a party and nobody came? I looked up arts and entertainment on one of the wikis in the discovery exercise and apart from the basic template with some links and four thumbnails of book covers no one added anything - no discussion, no stuff, nothing to do. "Hello?..hello..hello..
Anybody there?.. there.. there.. "
dull and sad - click
So not only can anyone contribute to a wiki, they *have to* or it doesn't work. If people don't join in you are left with the husk of a website, testament to the fact most of us have too much to do and not enough time to do it. This is probably more of a #4 comment than a #5 but anyway.
Back to #5. Freeware and wikis. Freeware is a wonderful democratic thing but sometimes you get what you pay for, so when stuff doesn't work you can't exactly demand to speak to the manager and ask for your money back. I spent some time diligently trying to post my blog on the PLMCLearning 2.0 Favorites wiki*. After working thru the 14 easy steps several times I enlisted the help of my friendly Learning 2 mentor. She had a few goes (about 42 steps) and then gently explained to me that I was using freeware... I decided it was time to get on with my life. I tried the slvpractice wiki instead, a much more rewarding experience - found some stuff on the website -select, copy, paste, edit, save - Bingo! That's more like it.
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