I think Wikis open up a whole new world, giving anyone with a special skill, knowledge, or idea to share it with the real world. I have used wikis before, specifically to add to our computer class syllabus. It is so easy to edit or add comments to most of these, and you know you might be able to help someone. My special favorites are the "how to do it" wikis. From our Discovery 2.0 blog I linked to wikihow which is loaded with great how tos. However I prefer the site ehow, which does the same thing. Ehow has a user friendly web design with the subject categories visible on the left. They also have a large number of entries, and a wiki is only as good as the the number and talent of people who subscribe. I have found the legal category helpful and wish I had had it a few years ago. There may a legal category on wikihow also, but if so, it is buried under something else.
One caveat---watch out for spam. I went into a library wiki site and there were of dozens of links with really odd, and disgusting, tags. I thought there were part of the wiki and some kind of joke, but it was all spam. Sam saved me and deleted all the spam since he is registered on the site, but never fear, you have plenty of more chances to find like spam on other sites!
Happycamper
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