[GLLUG] Wiki Software

[Clay Dowling]

I've been playing around with the idea of a wiki to manage role playing
preparation.  I've used Media Wiki, CVSTrac's wiki, and the wiki in
FogBugz.  None of them were 100% of what I wanted for a gaming wiki that
wasn't connected to a development project.

On a whim I installed TWiki.  An earlier experience with it hadn't gone
well, but I always blamed that on a buggy packaging in OpenBSD.

The tool turned out to be pretty cool.  It now includes a WYSIWYG editor
that seems to work as advertised.  It also has good performance, much
better than I got from Media Wiki.  As a bonus, it's pretty low key on
resource usage, storing all of the pages as files on the file system,
rather than needing a database.

So if you're looking for a wiki, take a look at the latest release of
TWiki.  And BTW, I'm contemplating presenting on the use of a Wiki for
role playing organization next year at Penguicon.  It's the perfect
nexus of geekdom.

Clay