If people can make use of @ signs for twitter ids and # for hashtags, why didn't they jump at CamelCase for wikis?
Frustrating.
Twitter tweets include so many punctuation marks denoting Twitter-specific objects like users and topic markers, that they eventually look like... well, programming code. Yet people are all agog with Twitter, at 140 characters a pop.
Wikis, which closed the loop making the World Wide Web a truly democratic and social medium for publishing at any length and complexity, languished for years despite bending over backward to work with contemporary technology. CamelCase was brilliant, a previously unused text convention ideal for human-created links.
Even with Wiki's modern popularity, CamelCase is deprecated. We are expected to use [[square brackets]] or some similarly-overloaded structure [in this case, editor's comments--Ed.] Perhaps this is because CamelCase looks like a mistaken omission, rather than an extra piece of information to be parsed.
