Have you been considering taking the plunge into the world of web 2.0 together with your library and developing a wiki? I recently put together a successful wiki for my college library and so I would like to share some success methods for how to do it successfully.Which wiki platform are you currently going to use?  hidden wiki    That is crucial since there are hundreds of these on the market and they all vary when it comes to simplicity, price, and setup along with the capacity to control who can view your wiki in addition to who is able to post to your wiki. Do you wish to use your wiki exclusively as a method of organizing and changing material on your website? Or do you intend to use the wiki to permit your patrons to interact with one another?What's the precise purpose for the wiki? To communicate between library employees? To communicate together with your patrons? To let your patrons communicate with each other?What content have you been going to include in your wiki? Just links to other pages on your own library web site, a searchable library catalog, details about library classes and events, popular books, news and announcements or other things?Do you want to purchase a wiki service or do you wish to use a free wiki? Is there a tech support person available to assist you install your wiki and to aid with some periodic maintenance? Or even, have you got a librarian who will take charge of the wiki and its updates and the technological side of maintaining a wiki? A wiki will be a lot easier to utilize and maintain on a regular website, however, you can't just put it down and never spend some time taking care of it. It also helps when you can develop some wiki specific content. Inside our case we created subject pages for all the major subjects taught at our college and included links to databases, magazines, books, ebooks, specialized encyclopedias and websites for each subject. We also provide our library news and policies amongst other components of interest to the patrons on our wiki. You will need to provide your patrons reasons to learn the wiki and to make use of it.

Search Wiki is a powerful search tool which allows users to customize the Google search result page by re-ranking, deleting, adding and commenting on search results. The feature can be acquired just for logged-in users. It is a big deal for Google, they have just taken the first step of launching its basic version and other processes like vandalism, libel, history, messiness, collaboration and other wiki matters are still hidden.Will Search Wiki affect rankings? Currently it doesn't have any influence on the entire ranking algorithm. Google has clearly explained that the customized search result is likely to be available limited to logged-in users and users could see how people have collectively edited the search results for specific search keywords by simply clicking the "See all notes with this SearchWiki" link.Even if Google plans to take personalized results into consideration on search results, it will be a welcome change to enhance informational sites with high relevancy to seem in the most effective rankings as only users can judge the most effective site as opposed to any other professionals. If this becomes reality, to be able to gain rankings webmasters is likely to be keen in offering the required information for end users.On another hand, they can also ask their friends and families as well as hire people to move their site to number 1 position in their wiki pages. Some webmasters might even spam with negative comments to remove their competitors'site from search result pages. On Wiki Search at the 2009 SMX West conference, Corey Anderson, a Google engineer, stated that they may be reviewing the comments cautiously in order to avoid any red flag or black hat motives. This activity will make sure that website rankings are not afflicted with this type of spam.Currently, Google gathers information from everything you're looking for, regardless of if you are logged in or not, for ranking a site. According in my experience, using personalized results in the ranking algorithm is a good idea so long as spam is avoided. This feature will encourage webmasters to provide only informative content on the site.