I ran an experiment for a few years, hosting a Wiki site to discuss Microsoft certifications and real estate. Well, I revisited those sites recently after a few months of being away, and noticed they had been overrun with spam.

So that's that. Goodbye to the wikis. Deleted.

Wikis, as represented by sites such as wikipedia, are great ways to crowdsource content. The ultimate Battlestar Gallatica wiki, or the Star Wars wiki, and sites are examples. If I go to a web page and see inaccuracies, or have more recent content to add, click-click-click and I can add it. Instant gratification.

But I was using a wiki as a convenient content management tool for me. The easy click-click-click CMS made it easy for me to add new MCSD content for instance. But it also made it easy for spammers to fill the page with crappy ads, and it was a hassle trying to roll back to the correct version. Yes, believe it or not some spammers edited the same page 50 times, so I had to go WAY back to find the right version.

Anyways, wiki is now dead. I don't even see it as a great content management platform any more. Well, except for the original Wikipedia which rocks.