A real test of whether or not traditional knowledge management applications can embed wikis will be when Sharepoint debuts their native wikis in their release next year. I’m pretty skeptical that they will pull this off because systems like Sharepoint are largely built around architectural principles very different from wikis, like a single author versus everyone is an author (in KM they would have editors as opposed to authors, maybe in this is semantic, I don’t know).

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This is also why I’m very skeptical of the idea that traditional content management and portal vendors will “add wiki functionality” to their applications. That idea doesn’t work because a system cannot be optimized for two different goals.

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