Wiki pages are not first class "items" in WSS v3

One of the strengths of the WSS platform is that all of the built-in list types have the same features set, such as alerting, permissions, folders, metadata. Not!

One of my customers is doing a Web 2.0 implementation using MOSS as the platform. They will be using the Wiki page type extensively.

Now I have recently discovered that Wiki page libraries cannot make folders for the pages.

This has the potential to be a large issue for 2 reasons:

• folders allow a better organization of the pages
  
• WSS has a well-known performance issue when a single view of data becomes longer than 2000 items

So this is definitely a drawback that will need to me mitigated. It is certainly possible that a code-based solution will be the best mitigation for this issue.

Here is a MSDN thread with the start of a workaround on this.

Note further that the Kwizcom product with enhanced Wiki capability also has this limitation.