Recently the development team at work started using a Wiki to keep track of information that is important to the team. Since our company has standardized on using SharePoint for Collaboration solutions we used the Wiki featured delivered from Microsoft (via the Community Kit for SharePoint).
I must say I am very unimpressed by the SharePoint Wiki. I don't want to take anything away from the community effort that developed the Wiki template for SharePoint. I'm sure the community has done the best they can to develop a Wiki application on top of SharePoint (although it does appear to be missing some basic functionality one would expect from a Wiki.. Categories, Page Discussions). Perhaps SharePoint is not the best platform to host a Wiki.
Here is a short list of my main concerns with using the SharePoint Wiki.
1. Content is stored in a single list
As most know SharePoint starts to perform badly whenever a list contains more than 1000 items (this number is debated, what is not debated is that SharePoint performance degrades as list size grows).
The Wiki appears to be storing all pages directly in the root of a Document list. So after my Wiki has 1000 pages I will start to see a major slowdown. I am really surprised that categories (acting as Folders) were not implemented. To me this would have been a natural way to help reduce the impact of having a large list of Wiki pages.
2. Poor Search
This is my #1 complaint with our new Wiki. In my opinion a Wiki is only as good as its search engine. And unfortunately SharePoint search is still not as good as it can be.
Conclusion
When I compare the SharePoint Wiki features and functionality to something like ScrewTurn I am left with one thought.. the SharePoint Wiki sucks.
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