WIKI WIKI and Major Mitchell, whoever he was

This cockatoo is called Major Mitchell's cockatoo, which begs the question - who was Major Mitchell??

I loved Stephen Colbert’s Wikiality sketch. I found the PB Wiki Tour to be very informative as far as describing what one needs to do to edit a wiki, including adding widgets.

I can see how this type of application would work well in libraries - for subject guides, community guides, conference planning, knowledge base (library instruction resources), and collaborative editing of documents. In many cases, wikis are much more efficient than e-mail (who would have thought?).