I am happy to say I found wikis to be an exciting new way to interact using the internet, especially useful for libraries, schools and corporations. I would not feel comfortable with information obtained from a wiki for anything important, but they are an interesting way to communicate opinions and learn of others. I am happy our library now has a wiki, and it has been fun investigating it.
I would expect in the very near future to see all universities having a wiki, since it is an excellent way to share information about class schedules, classwork, class discussion, assignments, etc.
Since you are required to login to edit, or post, it seems the content would remain relevent and monitored, to some extent. A possible problem may be, and always remain, in getting people (staff, students and professors) to visit the wiki, read it and contribute to it.
The wiki seems perfectly matched to a library situation. Now that we have our own library wiki, we will have the chance to use it for a variety of things, such as committee reports, and see first hand how it will contribute to communitation between departments, staff and possibly the public. Robin has done so much with our new staff website and the intrawiki. Hopefully staff will visit the website often and see the changes and contribute. So far, the Learning Library has been very user friendly and will be a big help for all of us towards this goal.
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You're right one of the hard parts of any project is getting people to participate. I think having individual wikis for certain areas would help with that. For example a genealogy wiki or a teen wiki.
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