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FOSS Self-hostable or desktop app wiki (great for worldbuilding)? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 hours ago by SpiderUnderUrBed@lemmy.zip to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I heard of a few wikis and desktop apps which are FOSS, some has UI's which look a bit old for, there are a few things like logseq I might try but from trying for a bit, i dont know how suitable it is for my usecase, but I want something that would be more specialized or at the very least have features that would be amazing for world building, (on a desktop app preferably but self hosted works too), like timelines, references to other pages, common stuff like Tags, Categories, and Taxonomies, graph view potentially, good search, templates. I don't need all the features I listed, just some or what your think aligns with what I am looking for.

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Wouldn't a word processor do trick? you can add links, images, refs, notes,... and have as many pages as you need (edit: and search them, add a table of content, and so on). LIbreOffice is most certainly already installed on your Linux distro and is also available for Mac and Windows.

[–] SpiderUnderUrBed@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Ehh, libreoffice doesn't even come close to what I am going for, I doubt libreoffice can come anywhere close to being used in any wiki, world building or not, transitions between pages are not seamless, and the best thing it can do is just make a document look good, which is of course useful for like all other use cases, but not for a wiki, think along the line of fandom.com or wikipedia, it would be difficult to recreate something like that with libreoffice, it simply just addresses a different use case.

[–] Libb@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I may have missed something, here so to make sure:

Do you want a wiki specifically, or are you looking for a tool that would allow you to easily create and manage some worldbuilding bible, be it a wiki or not a wiki?
Isn't LibreOffice able to export to MediaWiki (Wikipedia)? I have not checked, and never used it, but I think it's there somewhere.

the best thing it can do is just make a document look good,

It can also help you write the actual book, worrying about the document 'look' aka its formatting is optional (and if done properly, using Styles, it's almost 100% automated) ;)