Everyone likes to see their work published. Wiki's offer instant gratification. But besides that they are a great collaborative tool. These are really the first generation and at the moment can be a little clunky when editing but new versions will evolve and make it much easier.
How many times have you passed around a Word doc and not know which version was which, what's the latest or where to even find it on a shared drive. Wiki's solve most of these problems especially in work environments. In the next few years workplace intranets will take on this form and many major corporations are starting to use and move to this type of platform. It provides a good repository for passing on information instead of having it locked up in silo's on peoples drives.
Many people feel that wiki's are to open, not authoritative (what is?) and subject to abuse. On the flip side they have extensive logging and administrative tools to protect against many of these things. They are also extremely easy to manage.
I think further generations of wiki's will become a valuable knowledge tool.
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