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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 2654257" data-attributes="member: 21076">I even use them in these cases quite often.  I use a program called <a href="http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/" target="_blank">WikidPad</a> for campaign tracking and even some adventure writing.  Easily cross-referenced by using CamelCase or brackets, auto-complete as you start typing what is to become a Wiki Link.  This is for information I am likely to be the only one to use.  It saves the files in text format for portability and can even save the whole collection to html format for easy posting if need be.When I moved a fair portion of a campaign I was running into the above mentioned WiKi it was really just a matter of copying and pasting from existing electronic sources.  It didn't take very long to populate and in the end left me with a more useful format (useful for me).Generally not an issue in my case, but point taken.  Not everyone will have the resources to handle a WiKi and or messageboard for public consumption.True, it is always inconvenient to not have material on hand when you need it.  I think this is an issue with any electronic format though.  You can either risk printing off sections and not having the right section when you need it or printing off the whole thing.  Whether its a WiKi, Word doc or spreadsheet makes little difference.  But I sometimes wish I had brought a certain book to the table at times, so the problem even exists when there are not any electronic aids used in prep.  Sometimes you just don't have what you need when you need it. <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=":)" />   And as mentioned above this affects all electronic formats, not just WiKis.  You can either print the whole thing or hope you brought the right pieces.And the same thing a WiKi is, a central place for individual users to pull from as needed.  The docs would need posted online to have easy individual access between sessions.  No electronic access then no WiKi access or document store access.The WiKis I have seen seem to have good versioning.  Each doc has a history of the old page.  So I can see who was the last one to edit for many, many edits back and actually get back to that version if need be.  For the WiKis I setup only logged on users can edit pages, so that will be associated to a user name for accountability.  We also restrict who has accounts to further limit who can actually edit the material.And in this I agree with you 100%.  It looks like we just prefer different tools.</blockquote>

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