Some folks have been busy listing info-tech related panels planned for the 2005 AAA in DC on my wiki. Take a look here, and feel free to add your own. I’d be happy to let other topic-specific AAA conference pages emerge from that same starting page as well.

Anyone who wants to start their own wiki for a project might also wish to look at PB Wiki, which lets you start your own for free.

If you have a web server a very easy to install wiki is the similarly sounding PM Wiki, which doesn’t require any databases or anything to setup like Wikipedia’s MediaWiki software does (that’s what I use now). PM Wiki is really great for small, private, projects. It is highly customizable, with all kinds of plugins, including one that allows you to use bibtex citations! I have found PM Wiki to be the easiest to use, most customizable, and most stable wiki software out there. A somewhat similar project is DocuWiki.

If you like bleeding edge, try Instiki, which is the most promising new wiki I’ve seen, although I have found it far to unstable to use for anything important. It is nice because it allows you to create new mini-wikis with their own URL and password, giving you all the power of hosting your own PB Wiki site.(The new beta, Instiki-AR seems like it may solve many of these issues, and if I ever get it working I’ll let you know.)

If you want a wiki you can keep on your USB keychain, try TiddlyWiki. This is nice for private use, although I’ve had problems with it not saving my data, so I’m a little nervous about recommending it. You can even serve TiddlyWiki over the web if you use this python script, but I haven’t figured out how to make that work yet either. Even if I’ve had difficulty, many people seem to love this software and there are a million spin-off projects out there.

Finally, if you really just want something easy to use, and you have Mac OS X, try VoodooPad. That’s what I use to keep track of all the work I have to do, which reminds me …

UPDATE: I finally got the python TiddlyWiki script working. It wasn’t that hard really, but I’ve come to admire PM Wiki and have decied to stick with that for now. You can assign passwords to “groups” within PM wiki, easily allowing you to create a private wiki for any project you are working on. It is also easy to mirror copies in two locations.