Wiki

For my Wikipedia topic, I decided to look up my job title "library technician" to see what it would say. The entry for library technician in Wikipedia is generally accurate in terms of what library technicians do. However, in terms of qualifications, the Wikipedia entry states that "library technicians typically require a college library technician diploma". I don't believe this is the case; certainly it's not the case with the Juneau Public Library. The minimum qualifications to be a library technician with the Juneau Public Library are a high school diploma and 1 year of working in a bookstore or library. You can substitute the bookstore or library experience with college classes in any subject. To my knowledge, none of my library technician coworkers have library technician diplomas. Most have a bachelor's degree in a wide variety of subjects and all have at least some college. The training for working at the library is all on the job. It is interesting that the references cited for this Wikipedia entry are Canadian. It may be a different situation in Canada than the United States.

I talked to my supervisor about using Wikipedia as a reference and he said to look at the references cited and to make sure they are primary source material.
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The wiki that I joined from Wikia was the Recipes Wiki . I ended up editing a recipe for Easy Chocolate Mousse. It was a recently posted recipe that needed some formatting and grammatical corrections. It's difficult for me to post my edits because I didn't add any content to the wiki. Here is the link to the page showing it before and after my edits:
http://recipes.wikia.com/index.php?title=Easy_Chocolate_Mousse&diff=278542&oldid=278490

My edits are on the right hand side. What it doesn't show is that the list of ingredients was previously just written out in a paragraph. I formatted the list of ingredients into a bullet list so that it was more readable.

I don't know if I will continue to visit this wiki. I didn't find many recipes that were rated so I didn't have any idea if any of these recipes were any good. I also found the wiki difficult to navigate. There are a couple recipe sites that serve a similar purpose that I find more useful like FoodieView and Supercook .