I would like to setup a wiki on my notebook for my study and research notes and book excerpts. Puzzling around with hundreds of text files is quite unsatisfactory. Besides, having used wikipedia online for a while my way of thinking started to be wikified ;-)
I encourage you to do this! I use a local wiki for about2 years now, havin about 3000 pages - and I still like it. What I do not like, is that my wiki is a bit dumb. That's why we create an extension to MediaWiki, called Semantic MediaWiki [1], which allows to use a (quite) simple syntax to state link types. This open a whole world of structuring abilities that goes beyond categories. Youn can have RDF export of your wiki and then do SPARQL queries on you knowledge. It's like creating a database foru your stuff on the fly without ever thinking about the tables. You just write on the page of "Berlin": ... is the [[captial of::Germany]] ... then, later you can query your wiki for "*, captial of, Germany" and get Berlin back. That'S quite different from a keyword or backlink search. It's like the next step. It's easy to install, too. You just install MediaWiki and then a MediaWiki extension [2]. Enjoy!
[1] about & demo: http://wiki.ontoworld.org [2] software: http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki
Kind regards,
Max Völkel -- Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org voelkel@fzi.de +49 721 9654-854 www.xam.de
First Workshop on Semantic Wikis: http://semwiki.org