Wordpress 2.6: much to like
July 16, 2008
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.
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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.
The best wikis don’t feel like a wiki