This is a Really Fun Wiki that Everyone Should See

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

This is a wiki about - You guessed it! - television tropes. (this is actualy an example of 'Exactly What it Says On The Tin' which is one of the tropes listed). I would hesitate to call this site an authoritative source, especially as it proudly decries it's own authority. Despite that, it's various pages often feature interesting references, accurate quotes, links to related subjects and sometimes historical information (such as the source of a trope or it's first appearance). Although it might sound like a completely valueless source, it's actually a very useful and interesting guide to internet culture - if there's an expression you've seen online that mystifies you the explanation can probably be found here.

One warning - every page links to dozens of others on related subjects by way of text links and if you're not careful the site *will* suck you in and waste hours of your time.


If that's not sufficiently Library/education themed for this course I can also recommend http://librarywikis.pbworks.com/ a wiki by Library workers about wikis used in Libraries. It's full of useful information about how different elements of the Library community can collaborate, I found it easy to navigate, there are a great many links to other Library wikis and the qualifications of the main contributors suggest a certain level of authority. It was established by Matthew Bejune, who is an Assistant Professor of Library Science at Purdue University Libraries. The wiki is actually an adaptation of an article he published in a journal called Information Technology and Libraries in the September 2007 issue about how Libraries use wikis. It doesn't seem to have been updated much since he started it online two years ago, but it still makes interesting reading and the many links to other wikis are still functional - all the ones I tested worked.

Actually, this wiki is so good, did we look at it in class and I just forgot?