In my search for easy to use wiki site creators I found a site called www.wetpaint.com. This site allows you to easily create web pages that anyone can edit. It also allows you to lock down pages if you don't want someone editing a page. I've created a wetpaint site that can be found at www.wikimusicbios.com, take a look at it to see an example of what you can create with their wiki website tools. I believe that Wetpaint is better then Wikipedia.org because it allows you to create sites that you control and monitor. You can also create a community of users to your site. One of the features that I have found useful is there embeddable widgets, they have one to embed music from www.imeem.com. I will be using this widget in the future building of my www.wikimusicbios.com music site.

The site is free to use and they offer various attractive website templates. Wetpaint also has all the web 2.0 goodness that you need in a site such as tagging of pages using keywords. They also allow you to create custom templates to add to the "add a page" toolbox. Their search feature is also very good; it highlights the keyword you searched for in your wiki site. They currently don't offer any revenue sharing on their site and they do display google ads, that is the only downside. It does appear that you can put your on advertising on your wiki site, so there are still opportunities to profit from creating sites with Wetpaint. Also they have very useful RSS feeds that allow you to keep tabs on new pages being created on the site.

Kudos to the Wetpaint Team!