I’m a little suspicious of special purpose wikipedias – I tend to feel like the main project has such momentum that, in most cases, effort would be better folded into the main project. I’m more optimistic about the use of wikis for drafting of campaigns or legislation, ala Campaigns Wikia or MorePerfect, though I think both projects would benefit in a big way from narrowing their scope and making it clear that they want people to focus on building real-world campaigns and not on re-editing the US constitution.

I think Front Porch Forum is flat out brilliant, and I want it for my neighborhood, now – whether they can get microadvertising to work is another question. I think the Gentilly project has just raised some truly fascinating ideas about urban mapping and GIS, and am really excited to see where that project goes. And Metavid’s reclaiming of CSPAN’s footage gives me a big, goofy grin, though it still needs users to adopt it and find the interesting bits within the endless sea of talking heads.

But which live and die? That’s hard to answer at this stage of the game.