pbwiki

Signing up to pbwiki was quick and easy, and using it is fairly easy too. I do not see too many downsides to pbwiki. You can restrict access to who can post by having a password to add/edit pages; however, if you want to change the password for security reasons, you would have to tell everyone about the change. I think having user accounts would be a better approach to this.

I agree with this review (http://frem.wordpress.com/2006/02/04/pbwiki-review/, Accessed Sat 18 Aug 2007 at 9.10am AEST) in that only 10mb of space is nothing. As it says, email services are offering 25mb, and I have seen plenty of free web hosting services that offer at least 10 times what pbwiki offers. For a wiki, 10mb is far too small – especially if you have a number of contributers (which you should, to really make it a wiki!), and everyone is adding a lot of information, it all begins to really add up. There are upgrade options, but they all cost.

I think the idea of wikis are great – as I have said above it is about people adding their research and everyone helping out. It offers more than a static website run by one person could every offer; however, the one downside is that to go through and verify all of the information would take forever. If you only have people that you trust working on the wiki, then this would not be a problem.