What is this wiki for?

I'm investigating the concept of wiki, and trying out a few of the free hosted wiki options to see what they offer, how they compare etc.

Other wikis I've tried

See FreeWikiHosts for a review of various free hosted wiki options.

http://sbridewell.jot.com/ was produced using a rather cool WYSIWYG editor, but has a maximum limit of 20 pages under the terms of JotSpot's free package. JotSpot also offer a number of proprietary extensions which probably aren't wiki, such as a blog, a calendar, amd the ability to turn a CSV file into what they call an "application", i.e. a managed list, with the ability to add comments to each item in the WYSIWYG editor. This becomes impractical on the free package though, once you realise that each item counts as a "page", of which you can only have 20! I think they're aiming at a corporate market willing to spend money, rather than supporting a free community.

I created a page in @wiki's test wiki, to try out their WYSIWYG editor. I concluded that it was currently unusable due to a bug which keeps dropping the spaces between random words every time you edit a page, although their WYSIWYG editor control looked quite promising. Totally free, advert-free as well, but limited features otherwise.

See my comparison of Pbwiki and Schtuff wiki features

WikiStyle / wiki-markup

I see PeanutButterWiki doesn't have a WYSIWYG editor, so pages must be edited using wiki-markup. I took a crash course in wiki-markup with the help of a couple of pages on pbwikicentral, and what I've learned is documented on my WikiStyle page, in case I come back in a few months and have forgotten how to do it :-)