I'm look for software recommendations for a personal wiki for a worldbuilding project, something that I can use locally and that is open source.
I was checking out Doku Wiki and I know people use it for personal projects but it seems to be also geared towards businesses.
My world is going to have lots of characters and wars and I'd love a software where I can easily create Wikipedia style infoboxes.
If anyone has any experience with this topic I would love to hear for you.
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You already posted the best one. What are you still waiting for?
I've only dipped my toe into it. Where can I find more info on Doku Wiki? Are there lots of Tutorials on YouTube or is everything of the forums?
Try using a search engine.
Try not being a moron. It's literally babys first wiki and pretty much design for dummies. It still has everything you will need and more. Congrats on getting on the right path. You're almost there.
I wanted to make sure I was on the right track. I didn't want to end up downloading 15 programs just to test them all out my the end of this.
>I didn't want to end up downloading 15 programs just to test them all out my the end of this.
Sounds like a whole lot of not our problem.
Or a /wsr/ problem.
You are inept.
I dunno if it does online stuff but there's a guy who's posted his free worldbuilding tool a couple times recently.
>https://nebulousinteractive.itch.io/nebulous
I think it's purely offline, but it may be useful for you nonetheless.
Thanks G I'll check it out
doku wiki is far better I've tried both.
Do you happen to speak german? There's a good tutorial on worldbuilding with dok wiki made by a pretty chill german guy.
Can you link it? I know more German than most English speakers. I can also follow along with the video.
Sure here you go pal: https://www.youtube.com/@wurfelgeschichten8410/videos
It's relatively few videos but it will help get you started and will enable you to do everything beyond it on your own.
I've tried many wiki softwares and dokuwiki is by far the best I've come across. Spare your time and stay with this one. It's kinda hilarious to me that some people actually pay money for shit like world anvil and still get limited image uploads and shit when something as good and easy as this exists. Picrel is a little proof of concept from an old world of mine.
Danka G
Isn't there an anon who posts developments on exactly this?
He shows up occasionally to show updates and trying to get people to try it.
I remember the threads but I've never used it myself, its not really how I do prep, but I always feel bad for the lacklustre response he gets.
It's the Nebulous guy, he was here last week with an update. I think a big part of the lack of uptake here is that it's Windows-only and closed source but free. I'm going to give it a spin sometime, seems interesting enough - but I mostly use Linux.
Is there no way to run this program locally without connecting to the internet?
Dokuwiki? Yes, just run the server on your computer. Here's the total idiot version with everything built-in, just run it and go. https://bitnami.com/stack/dokuwiki/virtual-machine
dummkopf
I personally use miraheze so i dont have to host anything myself.
Look! It's the guy who said he'd make a wiki for the not!africa setting but didn't do shit.
who
Good video talking about digital note-taking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRpHIa-2XCE
Personally I use dynalist for everything notes. It just werks.
Kanka is what I use, it's the most generous wiki and easy to use
Zim is the easiest personal wiki even to install in my experience but I havent tested dokuwiki. I did invested time in a LaTeX based solution, specifically Emacs, so I get to preserve everything in plain text format with more features, that I can recommend for the long run.
Did you have cross linking or anything for your emacs setup?
Sorry bro I dont even know what you mean with cross linking, like follow links? There are extensions for that, sure.
lmao I thought he was going to say Zim was the easiest, kinda surprised me he uses Emacs but kinda not
Cherrytree. You want Cherrytree.
Just using an application that can do folding of headers is a big plus. I personally doubt the efficacy of zettelskasten and overcomplicated things so maybe stay away unless you really know what you're doing.