One of the things I lost when I moved away from Ourinternet was my wiki. One of the great things about Ourinternet was it had a whole range of applications that could just be added to your hosting without any extra costs. One of those was a nifty wiki that worked in a way I really liked in terms of how things were structured and put together. I could have still used that Wiki but that would have meant finding a host and whatever else and it's not worth the effort.

I've spent a bit of time looking at free Wiki services and I was having trouble finding one I liked. I did look into the Wikispaces service that is used for the 4E game, which is pretty good. I even had an account from when I was experimenting with it for Thrilling Tales. It did have the advantage of using all the same formatting options for the wiki content. It just didn't have the X Factor, and it had adverts, so after experimenting with loading up a few pages from the Thrilling Tales wiki I decided to keep looking.

Twitter to the rescue. After posting about my search to Facebook and Twitter someone replied with a recommendation of TiddlyWiki.

TiddlyWiki is a different proposition from most Wiki applications and services because the whole of your Wiki exists within one HTML file. That's all there is to it. The main advantage of this is it's ridiculously portable. I can edit it on my PC, put it on a USB memory stick and edit via Firefox on PortableApps. When I want I just upload it onto my Fandomlife.net hosting just like any HTML file. This is another good thing as I want to host it under Fandomlife.net to keep things simple. I can't seem to edit it once I upload it, but this isn't a deal breaker as I don't want it to be 'freely open to edits' anyway, so that secures the Wiki even though there might be a different way to do it. I know 'open edits' is the key wiki advantage, but experience tells me these things are largely a GM tool even if the content is 'group created'.

At the moment, I'm re-constituting the Thrilling Tales wiki, it works to get my head around the TiddlyWiki configuration and formatting options (pretty simple). It's all looking good. What I may do is a front page outside of the Wiki with graphical links to each wiki and then I'm ready to go.

Work in progress Wikis can be found below:-

• Thrilling Tales
• Fading Suns
• Nova!