eBay and JotSpot have just released a new community wiki - making it almost certainly the world's largest wiki platform for a commercial website (Wikipedia is bigger, but it's non-commercial). eBay Wiki is described as "a collection of fact-based articles written and maintained by eBay Community members" and is powered by JotSpot's innovative wiki technology.
eBay Wiki is located at www.ebaywiki.com and the wiki topics are categorized and tagged. You must be logged in as an eBay member to edit a wiki page, which then presents you with an easy-to-use wysiwyg HTML editor.
The site will serve as a central repository of tips and tricks for eBay's 183 million buyers and sellers, who will edit and update the information on the site as a group and try to determine the best ways to make money and save money using eBay.
More than 10,000 of eBay's users gathered in Las Vegas Tuesday for the eBay Live! conference at the Mandalay Bay hotel, where chief executive officer Meg Whitman addressed her company's avid auctioneers. This is conference season for eBay -- the company's developers conference wrapped up Monday.
Though wikis are most popular among the tech-savvy set, such as the programmers and technologists present at the developers conference over the weekend, Whitman chose to present the new eBay wiki to the entire user base, composed of small business owners, retirees and hobbyists.
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