The concept of a wiki is a webspace which everyone can edit – once you have set one up it can be used for all manner of stuff from disseminating articles to two-way discussions. On a wiki there are admins just like on here, but the articles are linked but aren’t threaded so its more suited IMO for larger articles, essays, “how-to” guides etc particularly amongst a collaborative community. The “everyone has edit rights” philosophy means its easy to make an addition or a correction, OTOH there is an audit trail kept and previous versions so a bad edit can be reverted back to a good one.
Wikipedia is a big encyclopaedia about everything. naturally there are differences of opinion, but there are very strict rules about keeping a “neutral point of view”.
IMO it gets targeted for abuse just like anything else connected with “communities”, “open source”, “hippies”, “collaboration”, “PLUR” in an increasingly sociopathic world. Some people just cannot accept any form of co-operative enterprise, and seem to take whatever action they can to destroy it, usually they are people who are unhappy in their lives and just wish to spread that unhappiness. Its rather like an angry person kicking a small dog in the street, and about as cowardly.
