Wikis harness collective intelligence , they allow a group of people to collaboratively develop a website. They are easy to set up and contributers don't need to know html.
One wiki I looked at - rocwiki - shows how interesting and useful a wiki can be. The wiki is about the US town of Rochester where unique local knowledge about all facets of the town are gathered on the website, if you were going to visit Rochester it would be an excellent guide to the town and you would discover all sorts of interesting information about the town and places to visit.
The Library wikis I looked at show some of the uses for wikis in libraries, for use both by staff and library users. The capacity for borrowers to add their reviews to the library catalogue is a nice feature.
Libraries could "host" a community wiki such as the one about their town.
A subject guide wiki is also a good idea where users update and maintain the wiki eg. adding new links and deleting obsolete links, plus add their own information.
The library can use wikis on the staff intranet for such things as collaborative document development, group projects, set up a collective knowledge base, conference planning - to name a few.
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