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

submitted 4 months ago by tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/552459

For a hobby of mine, there's an outdated lore wiki on Fandom.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 It only has unofficial container images, the documentation is outdated and (what I consider as) core functionality like WYSIWYG editor or simple infoboxes has to be added by extensions or templates.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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[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The DW instance isn't public (yet) but here's a link to the currently public mediawiki instance.

https://constructed.world/

I never invested the time to make the content very discoverable, so you'll have to make copious use of the random page and what links here features if you want to see what I've written.

Enjoy my stress-induced maladaptive daydreams.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing! I don't have a ton of experience with MediaWiki and cannot figure out how to go to a random page lol

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's behind the hamburger menu (3 horizontal lines on the top left of the page), at least with the latest default skin. You can also check out a list of all pages by searching Special:AllPages, and a list of all categories with special:categories The categories will in turn take you to lists of pages tagged with that category. It's great for going on wiki walks.