Campaign Wiki

[Ebonyr]

I'm also using a "tiddlywiki" - works like a wiki locally for one user, but can't be edited by anyone online. So, it's not as "collabrative" as a full blown wiki, but it's really easy to maintain, since it's all in one file. Organization is a breeze with tags, and creating links between sections is really simple.

Click the link in my sig to see.

I took Sir Brennen's advice and used the tiddlywiki. I really like the ease of use and the "cool factor. The website is in my .sig

 

[silvermane]

If you don't like the complexity of TiddlyWiki, http://sourceforge.net/projects/stickwiki offers a much more simplistic interface, but also less features (no tags). It does have some problems, however, with markup characters, so you should write every instance of *, / or another formatting character that is to be used literally as HTML entities.

 

[ErisRaven]

I thoroughly second the recommendation of PMWiki. I haven't broken it yet, I've asked it to do some pretty strange things.

I also overload it like crazy. If you wanna see our club's gaming wiki,
http://www.rookhaven.com/xandricorvus/

To view any of the single game-wikis:
http://www.rookhaven.com/nyrelia/pmwiki.php
http://www.rookhaven.com/livingend/pmwiki.php

There's two of the six or so I think we have. I leapt on wikis in a big way, and they seem to help our group tremendously. We have a message board for active play on-line, and then periodically I archive messages and chatlogs to the wiki for safekeeping. I back up at least once a month. Losing it once is enough - had to rebuild three of them from the ground up, and had to recoup two months' worth of worth in the Nyrelia one, but I think the results are still worth it.

The thing you have to decide is if the wiki is for you, or for your players.
If it's for *you*, then by all means try one of the wiki-on-a-stick implementations. I prefer TreePad for that myself, but YMMV.

If it's for the PLAYERS to edit, I highly recommend PMWiki.

-Erisraven

 

[Sir Brennen]

For anyone interested in another TiddlyWiki example, I've just put one out for my upcoming d20 Modern Call of Cthulhu campaign. If you compare it to my DnD site, you can see how much one is able to play with the layout of TiddlyWiki.

CoC: http://home.comcast.net/~joemoon5/CoC/

DnD: http://home.comcast.net/~joemoon5/tian/

 

[Anand]

I have a Wiki for all my campaigns (past and present) in:

http://www.anand.com.br/wiki

I used MediaWiki. I like the templates of media wiki, and some of my players were already wikipedia contributors. Unfortunatelly, all the contents are in Portuguese... We're playing Age of Worms and we use English rulebooks, so you find lots of familiar terms even in Portuguese!