Angela Beesley's wiki

This page attempts to categorize different types of wiki businesses. Inspired by Liz's notes on Evan's talk.

This is very very draft. Please edit it!

Contents 1 Hosting provider 2 Service provider 3 Content hosting 4 Focused community hosting 5 Consulting 6 Content development 7 Wiki software development 8 ???

[edit] Hosting provider

Simply hosts wikis.

Wikispace, wetpaint, pbwiki

[edit] Service provider

Examples: eModeration (provides wiki admins to Wetpaint)

[edit] Content hosting

Lots of content, not much community.

Examples: AboutUs, Chainki, qweki

[edit] Focused community hosting

Focus on particular topics. Managing the wiki itself and developing its culture and community.

Examples: wikiHow, Wikitravel, Wikia

[edit] Consulting

Taking the wiki method into the enterprise. Going into companies and showing them how to use wikis. Use wikis and wiki theory to help companies make the best wikis out there. Being professional wiki evangelists.

Examples: Socialtext, Helix?

[edit] Content development

Examples: WikiBiz, AboutUs

[edit] Wiki software development

Examples: Atlassian

[edit] ???

Unclassified:

• Wikimedia Foundation
• WikiOhana (not a business, but what if it were?)
• JotSpot - Now Google Sites
• WikiIndex