Wetpaint - Best Wiki So Far?

March 6th, 2006 at 12:31 pm

Thanks Michael,

We’ll have to work on shortening that tour. To clarify where we’re headed, we will offer users their own free hosted sites (on our servers, but under complete user/community control) when we do our full “1.0″ launch release. Until then, we’ll be using these first beta sites to get lots of user feedback.

–Ben

March 6th, 2006 at 12:33 pm

Is this the TechCrunch effect I’m seeing now? “We’re busy making improvements.
Please check back soon!” with dead hostImg

March 6th, 2006 at 3:47 pm

I prefer:

pbwiki.com

Make your own wiki in less time that it takes to make a pb&j.

Up for months. Check it out.

-Ian

March 6th, 2006 at 5:25 pm

It might not have much innovative in features (though I have never seen tagging and hierarchy features in the same wiki), but the way they have put everything together with wysiwig editing and easy to use features should make it more accessible for anyone to edit. Basically, it looks like they have brought wikis to a point where anyone can use them. They really put a lot of work and innovation into this one, and I hope they do well.

March 6th, 2006 at 5:58 pm

If it’s true, btw, that they raised $5.25m to build this application, I’m kinda blown away. I doubt there’s $100K invested in pbwiki and stikipad combined! How can this company be successful enough to provide a meaningful return on a standard vc investment (i.e. make $50m on the $5m invested). Too bad.

March 6th, 2006 at 6:25 pm

The code it produces could be cleaned up a bit. For example, text could be wrapped in paragraph tags, and two line breaks could start a new paragraph (which seems to be a common expectation among users) rather than inserting two line breaks. The edit-in-place functionality is certainly cool, however.

March 6th, 2006 at 7:07 pm

Looks like it has potential, but could be a little neater.

March 6th, 2006 at 10:20 pm

Admittedly, the Ajax is really nifty. The editing interface is superb. However, I find the rest of the interface to be complex, and bewildering, much more so than say, Wikipedia’s. True, in order to type in wikipedia you effectively have to learn a new markup code, but it only opens a single box on the screen. Really good job on the javascript though

March 7th, 2006 at 6:49 am

Very nice, I like the WYSIWYG VERY much. Will there be a downloadable version that will be installed server-side? Or do you ONLY host it?

Also, what will pricing options be? I work on an open-source project (wc3mods.net) and have been looking to use a wiki that is simple for my users to edit, mediawiki isn’t the easiest to use b/c of the markup language. Your solution looks quite nice but of course I’d have to be able to afford it since it’s an open-source project.

Ideas on pricing?

March 8th, 2006 at 1:41 pm

What Tom Mandel said about pbwiki and stikipad.

Jotspot is head-and-shoulders above WetPaint, though a vastly more complex application.

This is a pitiful puff piece; not representative I hope of your other work which I had thought was decent before this.

May 22nd, 2006 at 5:14 pm

I disagree with the naysayers. I’m a LEGO maniac myself and just registered with Wetpaint’s BrickiWiki. I anticipate any kinks will be worked out soon enough. In the mean time, I like this interface so much better than Wikipedia’s.

Come on, you have to admit- it’s a lot prettier to look at than Wikipedia, too. Plus, it combines nice features from blogs that helps to foster more of a community feel. Wikipedia is sterile to me and the mods are such fascists!