Best tool to make your own wiki?

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Hi all,

I have a need to make my own wiki. A place to add and detail some things and wanted to get your suggestions for the best platform to use for it? I am no developer so the tool must be easy to use and customize.

Please share your suggestions. Thanks!

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I haven’t used it very much, but Zim seems like a reasonable option.

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To share and host online, or just for personal notes?

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Maybe both? I’d like to have the option either way. But I am open to any option.

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Yes, I tried it. Its too bare bones and looks and feels outdated. I do want something more usable.

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If you mean a website wiki similar to Wikipedia, I really like DokuWiki for its simplicity to install and maintain. All that is needed is to copy some files to a PHP capable web server like Apache. There is not even a database.

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Theres this list and also this list

Theres also few static wiki that can be hosted completely free on github pages, gitlab pages, cloudflare pages or whatever static host out there.

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Thank you. Will check these out!

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Just be mindful if you go the static wiki route and want to host it at github, and want the wiki to be semi public with some page are public and some are private notes, github doesn’t allow private repo to be published as github pages on free tier plan.

Github pages need to be on public repo to be published on free tier so the public repo would be crawled by bots, random people could inspect it. A way to get around that is to use cloudflare pages. You’d store the wiki on github private repo, connect it to cf pages and cf will build, publish it and give you a free subdomain to access the built wiki site.

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Thanks for the context. My use case is much simpler than that - I just need it to build a personal knowledge base in the wiki format.

But I’ll keep that in mind.

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Then go local if you’re going to use it 100% private. Theres something like this and few others.

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I love Obsidian personally, especially as an offline notes and wiki app. It’s not FOSS though so make sure to judge it accordingly.

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Obsidian is great. Joplin doesn’t quite come close in terms of usability

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TiddlyWiki is very customizable but may require more time to learn. It also stores everything in one HTML file (including itself). There is an excellent tutorial, Grok TiddlyWiki.

A more lightweight alternative could be Feather Wiki.

Another approach: use CryptPad to create interlinked Markdown documents.

Also Standard Notes.

But if you want to store everything locally then Zim Wiki should be ok. You haven’t specified whether it must be an open-source project and what’s the target device.

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Not sure if you’re fine with a bit of tinkering but from the JS ecosystem, those 2 are quite good:

You can write basic HTML, markdown but also use reusable pieces if you feel the need for it. Same goes for themes, extensions. It’s quite stable and self-contained for the most part.

But those “docs generators” are maybe a bit overkill and too complex.
Thought would be cool to share. :hugs:

Can be a quick way to store knowledge locally or host somewhere for free. :+1:t2:

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