[ElfMage]

Originally Posted by firstrebel

Excuse my ignorance, but what does this do that vB does not? It seems to be just another forum.

Bob

Bob, forums are great for community building with their high level of interactivity.

However due to this very reason the more your forums grow the more "collective knowledge" is scattered throughout the thousands (or hundreds or millions) of threads in your forums. Making it difficult for users to find and use.

A wiki is not that good at community building, but it is great medium to centralize this 'collective knowledge'. Enabling you to create an 'ecosystem of information' (quoting pipin )

The idea behind vbWiki (both Standard and Pro) is to enable the seamless integration between these two packages (vBulletin and MediaWiki) side-by-side in your community. You (and your users and community) get the best of both worlds.

Or so the theory goes...

I'll add a 'Why you may want a wiki' section to my original post for others.