I remember reading a news article about a guy who, as a joke, wrote a fake profile on wikipedia about his boss. He said some pretty ridiculus things. There was, of course, a great deal of backlash when something happened to the boss because of the negative wikipedia entry. The guy who wrote it ended up losing his job. I always think about that when I think of wikis. They are great when they are freely accessed. It is very easy to just jump over to wikipedia and grab quick facts, but you can never really be sure of the validity of the information. But in the end they are easy to use, but then...
Anyway, I took a look at some of the other wikis and it seemed pretty obvious that you can create a credible wiki and negate a lot of the content problems when you have professionals developing the content.
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