Which Wiki?

[carborundum]

I've started running the Savage Tide and the PCs have met a mountain of NPCs already - not just barmen and priests but washer-women, canal dredgers, book-binders and arena poop-scoopers. Since it's still early days, I've been thinking about starting a wiki to keep all the info handy.
Has anyone much experience with this and could these experienced folks point me at a decent wiki package?

 

[Ilium]

I really like TiddlyWiki. It's different from most wikis in that you can't edit it online. It's more of a linked notepad thingy. But it's extremely powerful and easy to use.

http://www.tiddlywiki.com

My lame website using tiddlywiki: http://home.comcast.net/~jim.ade/ilium/HeirsOfEmpire.html

 

[Sir Brennen]

Yeah, Tiddlywiki is great if you don't expect your players to post/discuss alot on the site (especially if you already have a forum somewhere for that purpose.) It's a single HTML file which you can edit easily offline, then upload.

My sig has 2 examples.

 

[Ilium]

I was hoping Sir Brennan would chime in. He's done it right.

 

[Sephiroth]

We are using PmWiki for our campaign site. It wasn't very hard to set up.

http://pmwiki.org/

The link to the site is in my sig.

 

[carborundum]

Thanks for the replies - all those sites look great!
I'm not sure about the tiddlywiki is the animations and the way the page keeps growing seems a bit weird. Does it grow on you?
Pmwiki seems easier and 'cleaner'.

While I've been playing with wikidot I've got quite attached to tagclouds, I'll have to see if that can be squuezed in too.

 

[Ilium]

I like the animated opening in tiddlywiki, but you can turn it off. I think you can also make it automatically close whatever you had open before. These two combined get you a more "traditional" navigation, but I do like the way Tiddlywiki works by default.

Do keep in mind, though, that you and your players will not be able to edit the Tiddlywiki online. You have to do all your editing on your local machine and upload the file. This is a feature, not a bug. There are Tiddlywiki implementations that can be edited online (I believe Ziddlywiki is one) but of course you need the right kind of hosting to allow the editing code to run.