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

submitted 2 days ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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For a hobby of mine, there's an outdated lore wiki on Fandom.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 It only has unofficial container images, the documentation is outdated and (what I consider as) core functionality like WYSIWYG editor or simple infoboxes has to be added by extensions or templates.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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[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Mediawiki does have a WYSIWYG editor, but it's a separate extension (preinstalled, but you need to enable it): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor

The benefit of Mediawiki is that anyone that's edited Wikipedia before will know how to use it. It's a pretty heavy piece of software though, and the learning curve is relatively high if you've never hosted it before.

I used Dokuwiki at my previous job, maybe 15 years ago. It worked well. It doesn't need a database as it stores all wiki pages as plain text files on disk. I don't know if it has a WYSIWYG editor though. I've never used it on a public-facing site so I'm not sure how authentication works (at my previous job, we hooked it up to Active Directory for auth).

BookStack and wiki.js are two newer ones that have good reviews, but I don't have any experience with them.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dokuwiki has a well working WYSIWYG editor these days: https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:prosemirror

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

+1 for dokuwiki, don't forget to install the updater plugin, makes it a breeze

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