Wikis Are Here Folks

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It's bizarre watching the WebLog community debate: WikiWiki, good or bad? It's obvious from my perspective that wikis are on the same curve that weblogs are taking to ubiquity, just more slowly (remember, wikis are older than weblogs). Weblogs (and of course the entire web & Internet themselves) went through this good/bad debate heatedly in early news articles, and all continue to do so as they become more widespread.

Wikis are here, folks. Many people love them, for good reasons. The things people don't like are signs of ways that they need to understand wikis better, ways that wikis could be improved, and things that wikis are simply not good at. Figure out which and move along.

Bizarre may be creative. Ideas mentioned there:

Using Wiki for "Faceted Classification" for sorting out Web content on a site. "Fiki" A wiki where software creates links by analyzing text on Fiki pages, rather than the usual WikiName convention. Seems problematic and potentially interesting.