Who would have thought creating an entire world would be so complicated and interconnected, but here we are. How do you keep track of it all?
I’ve used Obsidian for the Lonely Galaxy. I try to write up a topic there before posting it here or on the CBB. I also have a wiki that largely consists of polished (or not so polished) versions of those notes as well as forum posts I never bothered to document properly.
For conlanging I’ve been all over the place and back again. The grammar is easy enough. I just write in markdown. The lexicon is much harder because it needs to be searchable. I’ve tried Excel, Obsidian, TiddlyWiki, a JSON file, and currently a CSV file. I wish I could commit to one and stick with it but at this point I’m impressed I was able to preserve the lexicon through so many different formats.
Was it your intent to eventually make it public? Or was there something about mediawiki that made it attractive for personal notes? It’s a bit of a chore for personal use compared to Obsidian, but I could see it being of interest for the version history.
It was not about making it public. It was, for me, the easiest solution to get things organized. I can just start an article on an idea and save it, and linking between articles and therefore ideas is easy. I can also integrate whatever media I need.
One big plus is the ability to use redirects as aliases. E.g. if there is an entry “Orc”, there is a redirect “Orcs”->“Orc”, so I can easily use either form in the text to link to it.
And on top of it, it’s free.