Offline Personal Wiki Software?
 

I'm attempting to make a mythos/guide to a story-world that I have developed, and I like the Wiki Software used on many sites (Wikipedia being the most obvious example), but all of the searches for an offline wiki lead me to online, server based stuff which is all entirely greek to me (Seriously, I know more about how to fly a commercial airplane then how to get stuff onto a internet server), and I only need the wiki for myself.

The closest and only thing I've found is a program called Notebook, which is nice, but the entire thing is bareboned and only supports GIFs. >_>

Can you help me out, GFF? I don't need a giant wiki, just something small that I can work on offline and on my computer. It would be great if I could even just use templates and fill in information at my leisure... but right now I'll settle for pretty much anything.

You could install something like XAMPP on your machine and then just run the wiki software on your own computer and browse it like it was on the internet. That might be a little tricky, but there's quite a few guides on using XAMPP if you look around a little on that site.

Otherwise, I don't really know of anything else similar to what you're after.

If you had a Mac, you could just get this widget. But, I'm going to guess you don't have a Mac. Which is a shame.

Have access to one someplace?

The best solution, I think, would get a WAMP setup (roph's suggestion is good, I suggest EasyPHP.)

It'll install Apache, MySQL and PHP, and set them up for you, so you don't have to do the hard work. Then it's just as easy as getting Mediawiki or whatever, putting it in the www root, and setting the wiki up.

It's very easy to do.

No offense here Cless, but, pull it out your ass.

I've personally grown tired of this shit again. It's cool that you like the Mac platform and everything, but it does no good when you're not being particularly helpful.

Odd. You know, I'm looking all over your post for a moderator tag, but interestingly enough, I'm not finding one. Perhaps you should chill the fuck out. OP didn't mention if he had a Mac or not, so I suggested something. The end.

Uh, no need to fight guys. Anyway, just to clarify I have WinXP on a Laptop.
I'll try out your suggestions though, Merv and Roph.

Yeah not that I have anything against Mac or anything, but I'm a major gamer d00d, so Macs were kinda out of the running :p

Both of your guy's suggestions were nice, but they were so bloated... Notebook is going to have to work for me for right now.

Try WikidPad.

http://www.download.com/WikidPad/300...ml?tag=lst-0-1

No idea how it is, but I found it by entering 'wiki' in the search box. ;)

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/f...ter-126052.php

You could get a Ruby implementation instead of Apache/PHP.

If you're using Windows XP Pro, it's pretty easy to install IIS (Add/Remove Windows Components) and then use a PHP installer for it and then just install MySQL for windows. That's my personal choice of a local webserver for testing. Apache and such are fine but a bit more complicated. What I just described is mouse clicking at worst.

Then installing the wiki of your choice would probably involve you unarchiving it to C:/wwwroot and performing whatever configuration that is necessary to getting it started.

But yes, ideally there'd be software that didn't require a server and database. However, your idea for plotting your story is pretty interesting.