Have wikis, those paradigms of collaborative publishing, lost their mojo?

According to one commentator- yes they have.  Although Wikipedia is well-established, some analysts argue that the use of wikis in general have lost steam:

Just a few years ago, it seemed nearly everyone, in academe and out, was hailing the wiki as the next great transformative technology — or, at the very least, a tool worth getting a bit excited about. Fast forward to 2009, though, and much of the enthusiastic talk has died down.

It’s worth noting that plenty of wiki-friendly concepts and innovations have been absorbed into other formats, as anyone who’s participated in group editing via Google Docs can attest. But there are other reasons that wikis never took the world by storm, according to some analysts. 'I always thought they were the nerdiest of the social tools,' says one social-media guru, 'and the one that requires the most established … oversight.'

Hat tip to the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

I am the scholarship dude.

(jbl)