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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2653703" data-attributes="member: 177">I'm sorry, but I think my point that the wiki is good for collaboration but not so good for single person works keeps getting lost.  I'm talking about the case when there are no other contributors to coordinate with.And even then - I work on wikis and standard documents all the time at work.  Cross references in Word take less typing than setting up a link in the wiki.  Also consider - a bright, shiny, new and empty wiki in which the contributor may place their work means a large data-entry task.  All the stuff they currently store in word-processor files and spreadsheets will have to be re-entered, by hand, and all the links created by hand.  The entire setting must be entered again.  This will be a barrier to submission.  As opposed to giving them a place to stick the files they've already developed, takign little extra work on their part.Tracking and locating particular discussions isn't difficult if you subscribe to them.  Gotta comapre the full feature set of one system with the full feature set of the other <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Feasability depends upon who's resources you're using - you need a machine to put this all on, and that machine's resources will determine how well it'd work.  If the machine is buff enough to handle it, then using both shyould work just fine.My biggest gripe with pdf's applies here as well.  This only works if you know exactly which sections you'll need before the session.  Generally speaking, if I need to refer to a book in session, it is because I didn't think of reviewing the material beforehand, because I didn't think it'd be relevant.  Players have this nasty habit of dong the unexpected, so I need more than just a coupel sectiosn of my important references at hand.I'm sorry, but you can't get around the fact that a resource strongly molded by it's electronic nature makes a poor reference if you aren't electronically enabled when you need to refer to it.What hassle?  That's what a document store is - a central place that gets updated, that each individual user pulls from as needed.  On the other hand, wikis are not particularly good at versioning, or tracking who changed what and when.  Word processors and data stores do that better.  And a word-processor store is better at "prettying up" the document, as wikis generally have fewer formatting options available and lack wysiwyg editors.Let me be clear - I'm not saying wikis are bad.  I work with them every day.  I also work with document stores every day.  They each have their own strengths and weaknesses, and there's simply a matter of using the right tool in each case.</blockquote>

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