Richard’s wholly unimaginative blog

It seems like Oddmuse was indeed a good choice, since there exists a module that converts CamelCase to Camel Case when the links are displayed. So, in effect, I get the best of both worlds. I have Accidental Linking without having to see things like TownOfArpet.

I’ve decided to try to organize my various hand-written notes and text files related to the D&D campaign I’m running on a Wiki. I’ve set up a nice little Oddmuse Wiki, which was relatively painless and seems to offer the right mix of features.

So far I have two problems. One is that including various images is rather painful and not very pretty, as each image either needs to be uploaded to a web server (perhaps something like Flickr will be useful here) to be inlined or uploaded and made into a WikiPage. I’m going to take a look at the bloated MediaWiki beast and see if the name implies some sort of advanced alternate media handling.

The other problem is, and likely only because I’m myself and like to fuss about the details, is the choice between Free Links and CamelCase. It seems like both have their pros and cons and there is no clear winner, it seems. Most Wikis, as far as I know, now prefer to use the Free Links, but that doesn’t mean I have to follow that trend. The main reason I like CamelCase is AccidentalLinking, which is one of the reasons I went with a Wiki to begin with. On the other hand, the single word and apostrophe problems might be significant. I think for the time being I’m going to try to use CamelCase whenever possible and only use Free Links when absolutely necessary (such as when dealing with apostrophes in names like O’Reilly or acronyms).

I’m hoping this will help me be more organized and will make it easier to find stuff.