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Setting up dokuwiki as flat files and folders (discuss.online)
submitted 2 weeks ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40841668

Been working on building a wiki over a number of months, but realize it is a ton of work. My goals are:

  • No Database, just files and folders for Dokuwiki
  • Get the experience to feel accessible and fun for users.
  • Make the wiki into something users can save locally and access offline.

The wiki coincides with various DIY and open source projects I'm experimenting with. Thought I'd share here, since this is about the extensions I'm actually using within Dokuwiki. Would love to add more, but just need them to work in daily use first.

Plugins in use:

  • SMTP, so users receive their login credentials.
  • Templator, for treating pages as templates for re-use.
  • Include plugin, for using pages within pages to organize content.
  • Open Document plugin - For export as odt
  • Pagelist, which I'm still learning for organizing tables.
  • Move plugin - for moving location of pages without breaking links.
  • Wrap plugin, for centering images and code blocks.
  • Tag, for adding tag browsing between page.
  • Footer, for clarifying info displayed at bottom of pages.
  • Catmenu, adds a clean, simple tree menu for the page being viewed.
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[–] slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I used dokuwiki extensively over the years to manage projects, organize data, and build public web pages now and then. It’s been a pleasure to use.

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool, would you care to share some of your favorites?

[–] slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Andreas’ “gallery” plugin was a great way to share my photos. I believe I tweaked the code to read exif data from the jpegs to extract the comment/description and display it as a caption.

“Graphviz” was also wonderful for generating flowcharts and organization charts for my work.

My present website runs on dokuwiki, though it’s pretty bare bones and not doing anything fancy. Just an English-Japanese bilingual setup.

djdupriest.org

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago

It looks fantastic! How did you get it so clean and modern? Bootstrap?

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are others running Dokuwiki in production? Would much appreciate suggestions for setting up a nice wiki flow. Right now there is probably a lot of improvements to be made in terms of indexing and otherwise organizing content. I find the plain text syntax takes a while to wrap the brain around since it isn't markdown, but certainly fun to experiment with.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I have just let it grow organically. The front page is an index of various topics from personal things and particular games to household information. Then below that there might be just a page or an index to a bunch of pages often starting just as a list of links. I am often refactoring once a page has a bunch of sub headings of related topics but ultimately now needing multiple pages and replacing the original with the index to those pages. I don't think I could have designed an index system from the start without the content because I wouldn't have known what I was going to store.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Watching the thread because I've recently been toying with the idea of using Dokuwiki as a place to store all my selfhosting notes.