Social Software – WhyWikiWorks/NotBy Clay ShirkyOver on Ward Cunningham’s original wiki, there is a conversation on WhyWikiWorksNot. It’s a discussion, by those who find wikis valuable, of the things wikis don’t do well. I found it by following a referrer from Liz’s initial criticism, but in addition to addressing issues of visual presentation, WhyWikiWorksNot discusses social patterns of wiki use use — writing wiki pages as a shared document vs writing them as a threaded discussion, when and how to refactor, and so on. (There is, of course, a parallel discussion on WhyWikiWorks, also interesting.)