eBay Wiki - world's largest commercial wiki launched

eBay Wiki - world's largest commercial wiki launched: "eBay, in collaboration with JotSpot, has just released a new community wiki - making it almost certainly the world's largest wiki platform for a commercial website (Wikipedia is bigger, but it's non-commercial). eBay Wiki is described as 'a collection of fact-based articles written and maintained by eBay Community members' and is powered by JotSpot's innovative wiki technology. I spoke to JotSpot co-founder and CEO Joe Kraus about the new eBay wiki yesterday - his thoughts later in this post. But first an overview of the product. eBay Wiki is located at www.ebaywiki.com and the wiki topics are categorized and tagged. You must be logged in as an eBay member to edit a wiki page, which then presents you with an easy-to-use wysiwyg HTML editor. So no awful wiki syntax to learn! Choosing topics/sub-topics and tags is very easy, as the following screenshot shows: eBay Wiki also has article history and ratings, the editor's user details and seller/buyer ratings (i.e. their eBay reputation), RSS feeds and other easy-to-use social features. So why did eBay choos"