I saw a mention of Wiki.js today and I looked at the landscape of wiki software. There’s plenty to choose from. What do you host?

Update

Thanks for all the opinions. I tried both Wiki.js and DokuWiki and I found that both can save data as .md files. I think I’ll go with Wiki.js for now.

  • @[email protected]English
    18•1 year ago

    Dokuwiki personally, wiki.js at work.

    I prefer dokuwiki and how everything’s just a text file.

    Wiki.js looks more modern. I wouldn’t want customer facing documentation in Dokuwiki.

    • BakkodaEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Second Dokuwiki. It’s just too easy, flat files and it takes up almost no room.

  • conrad82English
    8•1 year ago

    Currently using Silverbullet ( https://silverbullet.md ).

    I like that it has offline mode and everything is in .md files, and it is a combined edit and view mode. The home page us editable, but doesn’t sync back - if you want to test it

    It has a pretty powerful query function, to autogenerate lists of tasks or files

    • JamieEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Reminds me of Obsidian, which is what I use for notes. But obsidian isn’t selfhosted. I might actually host a copy of that because it’s cool

    • calm.like.a.bombEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I use Silverbullet too and have set the same directory as my vimwiki path, so I can edit my files in the terminal if I want, but also in the browser. Never had issues with it.

  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    Might not fit exactly with what you were thinking, but I use Obsidian for notes and it’s built in ‘wiki-style’ links make relating knowledge really easy. I use git to sync across devices.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      I use Obsidian for notes too. Recently, I’ve been playing with Starlight (based on Astro) for notes that I want to put on the web. It supports .md & .mdx files so creating a page is pretty much just copy + paste. Haven’t gotten around to self-hosting it yet though

  • JonasEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    I am currently using DokuWiki via Docker Container. It’s simple and works flawlessly

  • Bristlerock
    4•1 year ago

    I used Linuxserver’s Docker container of Dokuwiki when I migrated my notes from Evernote a few years ago. It was easy to setup and configure, has a number of plugins that further improve it, and it did the job really well.

    I ended up migrating it all to Obsidian this year, as it serves my needs better, but otherwise I’d still be using Dokuwiki.

  • waldenEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I’m interested in what people have to say!

    I recently copied over a reddit wiki to Wiki.js. I had to watch a couple of tutorials, but in the end it’s really simple. It uses the headers for whatever you type to automatically make clickable links.

    Is that common for wiki software? I don’t know.

    The only thing that I’m trying to decide if I like is the 3 column navigation. Far left is the top level subjects, then there’s a second column of navigation for the current section, and finally the 3rd “column” is all of the wiki text.

  • smplEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I use gitit from the Debian repositories. It’s a simple server application without a database and it uses git and pandoc. I just run gitit -f somewiki.conf and access it in the browser. As formatting you can use what pandoc supports, but I’ve chosen reStructuredText. DokuWiki mentioned by others in the thread is also a good option.

  • Treczoks
    2•1 year ago

    I run several instances of mediawiki. Sometimes I curse the programmers for being jockeys (next to no usable documentation, every update breaks something), but at the end of the day it’s easy and works.

    • NixEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      When i figure out how to hide ip addresses from logged out users and how to implement the short url so it doesnt show index.php on my url ill finally be able to finish launching my wiki on mediawiki.

      But yeah like you said there’s barely documentation and its really hard to get a reply on the support page

    • OutcideEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Wow, that’s a blast from the past. I had no idea phpwiki is still around!!

  • ABeeinSpaceEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I run Outline. Originally I was looking for a drop in Notion replacement, but it isn’t quite there yet.

    I still run it because the stack was a bear to deploy, so I wanna get some use out of the product (Redis, Outline itself, Postgres, and MinIO or AWS). It is a good product, it’s just lacking some features that I use in Notion

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    I’m using Bookstack for myself as well as for work and I love it. It may not have all the features some of the others mentioned here do but there is beauty in its simplicity. It gets out of my way but still has a few power user features.