It’s easier to have a bunch of hyperlinks in a wiki (be it to internal or external material)
A wiki’s comment page is a natural place to have a discussion; collaborative work on a book would also require a separate medium (Mailing list, LessWrong) for discussion
Other cons (advantages of Wiki):
It’s easier to have a bunch of hyperlinks in a wiki (be it to internal or external material)
A wiki’s comment page is a natural place to have a discussion; collaborative work on a book would also require a separate medium (Mailing list, LessWrong) for discussion
A wiki is indexed by search engines
You can link to a specific page of a wiki