Willing to Wiki??

I am prejudiced against Wikipedia as a source for the obvious reasons. Once in a while I find myself looking for information on that site, but I double check my findings. I agree with one thing I read about wikis - that people may be reluctant to edit wikis, even if the author wants them to. Changing someone's contributions on a subject takes either a lot of confidence, anger, or expertise. None of those descriptions fit me.

In one public library wiki it was suggested that contributors could include coaches posting their team's schedules on the library website. I find this imprudent because there are a lot of privacy issues, especially concerning children, that we need to respect. Perhaps a parent would not want just anyone to know that little Janie is playing at P.S. 101 on Thursday at 6pm. It's too much information to publish to the whole community.

As a public library we need to make a lot of information available to the community. However, in this Web 2.0 environment, where consumers become contributors, we need to reflect about how much our consumers' information should be easily accessible.