I work as a freelance translator and I need an easy way to create my
personal glossaries. There are powerful and overly complicated
terminology management softwares on the market, but for my needs I
think a wiki would be enough.

I organize the glossary as follows:

- one tiddler per entry created from a template, so that I only have
to fill in the relevant information

- tags to categorize the different entries (whether the source word is
in Italian, Spanish or English, the specific field it belongs too,
etc.)

- TiddlerListMacro to get an alphabetical list of the entries that I
can filter by tags

The glossary I created works perfectly so far, ecxept for the annoying
problem of the sort order both in the Timeline and with the
TiddlerListMacro: words beginning with a capital letter comes before
the ones that begins with a lower case letter, and the ones beginning
with an accented letter after these ones, i.e.:

Páis
américa
ficha
águila

instead of:

águila
américa
ficha
País

Having read some post about bad performance as the TW grows bigger, I
wonder if a database solution like ccTiddly would solve my problem. My
test glossary is small, but if I finally decide to implement it using
TW it's going to grow fairly big, as I'd be adding entries constantly.

I tried other wikis that would scale better, like PMWiki, MoinMoin and
DokuWiki, but all of them have some limitation, mainly:

- they normally use page names instead of page titles, so no spaces in
titles and conversion of all non-ascii characters.

- page revisions (I don't need them, but wouldn't be a problem)

- cumbersome process to delete a page,  I'm the only user of the wiki,
if I want to delete a page, I mean it :)

- difficult to rename a page

- categories instead of tags, almost impossible to batch-rename them
in multiple pages, less flexibles than tags

each of them has some of the above features but lacks others, dokuwiki
has tags, for example, and pmwiki could be tweaked to suit my needs
with *a lot* of costumization. The wikiengine that gets closer to what
I need is Moinmoin, but it lacks tags.

TW would be perfect, but on a long term I'm worried about performance
issues. Is there some implementation of TW taht could solve this
problem? Or is there any other wikiengine I haven't tried that would
suit my needs?

 aless






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