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Which wiki software to host (lemmy.nocturnal.garden)

submitted 4 days ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/552459

For a hobby of mine, there's an outdated lore wiki on Fandom. I dislike Fandom and would like to host an alternative. It's supposed to be accessible to all kinds of people.

I started with mediawiki as that's what Fandom and Wikipedia are using, so people would be familiar with page structures at least and maybe the editor.

It turned out to be a bit of a pain though. It only has unofficial container images, the documentation is outdated and (what I consider as) core functionality like WYSIWYG editor or simple infoboxes has to be added by extensions or templates. I'm in the process of setting it all up and wondering if it's worth it (and if I want to maintain it). There's so many wiki projects it's hard to keep track, what are y'all using for stuff that's used by larger communities and simple to use with close-to-default settings?

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[–] Unlearned9545@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I love wiki.JS Spun up several sites with it.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 3 days ago

you're gonna get a LOT of opinions here. Try some out and find what you like the best. Personally, I run Dokuwiki, mostly because i can just zip the whole directory, and move it to another server or back it up a LOT easier than something like MediaWiki.

[–] TomAwezome@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Maybe skim this recent post? https://lemmy.world/post/43616899 Lot of folks chimed in about their opinions on many different wiki approaches, my takeaway was that Bookstack looked like something I'd wanna use in the future, but there's a lot of stuff covered in there.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 1 point 4 days ago

If you like Lemmy you might like ibis, also by @nutomic@lemmy.ml

[–] vestigeofgreen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 days ago (1 child)

Do you need to host it yourself? https://miraheze.org/ may do hosting for you

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 1 point 4 days ago

Need? No
Want? Yes

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 0 points 4 days ago (1 child)

i like moinmoin and dokuwiki, mediawiki always felt too complex.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 1 point 4 days ago

As someone from Northern Germany, I'm obliged to check out MoinMoin!

[–] themachine@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago

Someone just posted their own short reviews of a slew of wiki options in this community so maybe go take a peek at that.

Personally I'm finding I like Otterwiki quite a lot though I've not yet dug deep into it.