Wordpress 2.6: much to like

Want to know about the new Wordpress 2.6 features? Check out the video above (courtesy of Andy Roberts)

Andy asserts that Wordpress is taking on more of a wiki feel and declares that to be goodness. I agree. But then I could flip the coin and use something like DekiWiki. More about which later Some disagree. In comments, Steven Walling says:

As someone who participates in both a group Wordpress blog and wikis, I think the idea that Wordpress could ever replace MediaWiki is completely laughable. The movement from the editing function and the public-facing version is far too slow (remember what wiki means?), and it doesn’t have anywhere near the kind of inter-page structure that most wikis need. That’s in addition to the lack of internal linking you already mentioned. Wordpress becoming more wiki-like is certainly a cool thing. But a replacement for wiki as we know it? Not happening.

Watch this space. In the meantime, wish me luck as I don the proverbial tin foil hat and set to work upgrading my Wordpress implementation.

PS – hmm…maybe I’ll hang back given what Chris Brogan said.

Aaron Fulkerson says:

July 16, 2008 at 8:00 am

Thanks for the nod to MindTouch Deki.

WordPress will never be a wiki like MindTouch Deki and it shouldn’t try to be. It certainly shouldn’t try to be a wiki like MediaWiki. My God! For the record, I don’t think the team at WordPress is trying to be a wiki either. The “wiki-like” functionality they’ve added seems like a nice addition to, what imo, is the best blogging software available. Put simply, describing the new capabilities as a wiki just because they do versioning is somewhat of a stretch, but this does manage to get some attention. Good for them.

Some people, including the illustrious Ward Cunningham, have stated that MindTouch Deki barely resembles a wiki. This is true if you consider the original intent of a wiki was to be the simplest web interface to a database that worked. For MindTouch Deki the wiki is just a component: the user interface, which is, I guess one could say, wiki-inspired.