Wetpaint Launches 'Invitation-only' Wikis

Information sharing, community-building and collaboration options continue to expand for consumers, educational and business organizations alike:

Fundamentally, Wikis are about openness, dialogue, and interaction. However, there are any number of situations where those things need to happen privately," said Ben Elowitz, CEO of Wetpaint, as he announced last week that Wetpaint has added the ability to create free invitation-only Wikis viewable and editable only by people their creators invite.

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Seattle start-up Wetpaint has powered more than 450,000 user-created community sites since launching in June 2006. Establishing a free private Wetpaint Wiki is an easy election available to site creators during the Wiki setup process at http://www.wetpaint.com/wiki, Elowitz explained.

Wetpaint Launches 'Invitation-only' Wikis (SocialComputingMagazine.com)

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Comments

[Mark Leighton Fisher]

This feature is needed (IMHO) to drive further adoption of Wikis. I use Wikipedia as a starting place quite a bit, but I do not put much trust in any controversial topic on Wikipedia used alone because anyone can edit Wikipedia. Inside a collaboration group (whether in an Intranet or a group on the Internet), access levels make sense -- for example, you probably don't want J. Random Employee able to modify the HR Policies website (the temptation to give each employee 6 months of vacation a year is too strong). Some information should be hosted on a wiki-like system, but should not readable by the general local population (pre-acquisition information, troop deployments, names of criminal informants, etc.) Wikis with access control, like the aforementioned invitation-only wikis, are the solution to these kinds of problems.