I spent part of this morning writing a wikipedia article and it was way way too hard. Really it was:

1. Another Markup Language.

Yeah, baby, I want to learn something that combines the worst obscurity of Tex, HTML, and C++. Yah know, Jimbo , you could spend less time on the "I am important" circuit and get someone to write you a WYSWIG editor.

Oh, the irony of a nofollow link to you AND the fact that you have a reference to an editor you can't implement.

2. Style Guide From Hades

This is a family blog, so I can't say what I think about your style guide.

3. Writing Workflow Pain

Have you ever watched someone write an article from scratch? Bejebus, man, have pity. I write a new article once or twice a year and it is hard. It's not that I don't contribute to the wiki - mostly I correct silly mistakes in American History articles, which is easy enough.

I reckon new article creation on the wiki takes me 4x as much time as on this blog.

4. Save as Draft

Wordstar had this in 1987.

5. Terrible Examples

Your annotated example is 90% text about a freaking auto-train and maybe 10% annotation about formatting. Isn't that backwards?

6. Overlove of Thyself

Ok, it's keen and everything that you have that graphics dumping ground you call the commons, but forcing graphics into the wiki model, well, it doesn't work. Go look at Flickr. There is a site that works.

7. You're Walking Dead

I'm actually starting to mourn you before you're even dead. Yes, I know you still show up in the top two positions in Google SERPS for, well, everything great and small.

But you have to know that with Google's launch of Knols (and isn't that another ironic link?) you're like the 1900's Bud horse drover looking at a model A for the first time. Sure, we'll enjoy looking at you once in a while, but you'll be gone from the streets before too long.

[I was writing an article on Social Networking Automation Tools. Please feel free to contribute. While the Wiki is still around.]