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Originally Posted by Quoth
Only for a madly complex series and multiple writers. It's pretty easy to install the SW that Wikipedia uses. Free as is PHP, MySQL and Apache, needed to run it. You can also install those on Windows, they come as standard on most Linux distributions.
I and others here have used "personal" Wikis for over 10 years. You won't like it. For one author, using Notepad++ or KATE (a multiple tab text editor) with a separate text file for each thing and a different "session" for each series or unrelated project will work better and far simpler to setup and use.
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I thought I'd add that you can, in effect, use either MS's One Note, or Evernote--either--as "personal wikis" effectively, by the simple expedient of linking the notes. It's incredibly simple in OneNote (which also can run in the cloud, being utterly portable), altho you mentioned a Mac, so that's probably not on.
I find using similar functionality in Evernote far, far less simple/intuitive.
Nonetheless,
both can be used as personal wikis, effectively.
I freely admit, I don't understand why a wiki would work, as that's primarily for organizing data, which you've said you are already doing in Calibre, but, for the purposes of answering the question and your earlier comment about not knowing how Evernote or OneNote, et al, would assist you, (and your mention of the personal wiki), I did want to add that indeed, you can use Note taking apps a bit like a wiki and IMHO, it's easier.
I also admit, I'm just not sure what you're trying to do here. You've said that you have the data organized and that now you're trying to proofread, but not really PROOFREAD inasmuch as make sure you haven't missed something, which, as someone else said previously, isn't really proofing, it's fact editing and that's a whole other kettle of fish. I don't, really, see any way around the simple expedient of going over all your fact data a second time, from the final draft of the work to your sources. I can't really think of any software that will "check" that for you.
About the only thing that might have helped would have been something
like OneNote, where you would make a separate folder for each discrete topic, and individual notes for sub-topics or areas beneath that and
then linked the entire folder (or each note, whatever) to your work, and
then used that, NOW, to work backward to ensure that you didn't miss anything. With something akin to Word+OneNote, that's relatively easy to do.
So, sorry...I don't have any great suggestions at this point. (FWIW, I've used a personal wiki and I don't see that being spectacularly helpful, for a variety of reasons.)
Hitch