This week I chose to review examples of three hosted wikis and compare features/functionality from the end user/reader rather than an author/creator perspective. Each of the examples reviewed used different wiki software and were reviewed for ease of navigation, organization and ease of editing.

I couldn't resist answering this question, as we just finished Battlestar Galactica and this assignment gives me an opportunity to (finally) see what fans have been saying about the show while doing homework! How cool is that?

I used PBWorks to create a wiki because I wasn't so hot on Wetpaint's Google or banner ads. For the past several months I've been promising to re-do the website for my son's elementary school and thought it might be interesting to see how it would work as a wiki that all the PTA members could edit.

Here's the wiki: http://emersonelementary.pbworks.com/FrontPage.

I took a look at the following three wikis from an end user/reader perspective:

- Alexander Mack Memorial Library Wiki (PBWorks, formerly PBWiki)
- Shadow Librarians of NorCal Wiki (Wetpaint)
- SLIS’s Second Life Wiki (MediaWiki)

Navigational structure