What is subwiki

#1

I recently started using tiddlywiki-app. Its documentation mentions support for Sub-Wiki, which sounds interesting and potentially useful.

I have several older wiki folders that I’d like to reorganize, so I’m trying to understand how this feature works.

What exactly is a Sub-Wiki?
I checked the official documentation and also searched this Discourse forum, but I couldn’t find a clear explanation.

Could someone provide a brief description or point me to the right resource?
Or general suggestions regarding managing several wiki folders separately and jointly?

#2

Found some hints here TiddlyWiki App: A Smooth User Experience (2025) for Multiple Platforms - #45 by oeyoews

I remember that the subwiki concept first appeared in TidGi-Desktop. It was designed to add a private folder for users. Even if the HTML is exported, the content in the private folder will not appear in it.
The usage is to add a private tag to a tiddler(in tiddlywiki-app)

#3

If you use tiddlywiki on top of the node server it is possible to generate additional wikis under the same node instance. The previously published Bob Wiki allowed you to create “sub wikis” from the master wiki and navigate to them from a list. Perhaps this is what was meant on tiddlywiki-app, but the term “sub wiki” is free and open to be defined by the reader/writer.

Arguably the following could also be sub wikis

  • Wikis generated using the inner wiki plugin
  • Wikis accessed through an iframe
  • Wikis with a subset of plugins and tiddlers from which you import content to be included in master or parent wiki

etc…

#4

In GitHub - tiddly-gittly/TidGi-Desktop: TidGi is an privacy-in-mind, automated, auto-git-backup, freely-deployed knowledge management Desktop note app, based on Tiddlywiki, with REST API for web-clipping and Anki connect. 「 太记 」是一个基于「 太微 TiddlyWiki 」的知识管理桌面应用，能保护隐私内容、高级自动化、自动Git云备份、部署为博客，且可通过RESTAPI与Anki等应用连接。（迭代开发中欢迎试用，开发进度见下方链接）(Under active development, see website below for details) ， subwiki is a wiki workspace that when you add a specific tag, your tiddler will auto moves to it.

It don’t start a wiki itself, so it is a sub-wiki. Its main-wiki start the wiki server and load tiddler from both main-wiki and all sub-wikis.
It can be used to contains some private tiddlers, when you publish you main-wiki to internet, and you want some privacy, so you can add Private tag, to move some tiddlers to a private sub-wiki that is not publish to Github public repository.

There is a doc for it:

https://tidgi.fun/#TidGi%20Feature%20Handbook%2FCreate%20Workspace%2FMain%20workspace%20and%20sub-workspace