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How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

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Re: How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

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post #30

We used Dokuwiki in a similar situation. It's been a few years since I last used it (new client uses confluence) but I remember it was super easy to connect external tools. If your script can output text, Dokuwiki can display it :) https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki EDIT: I decided to try dokuwiki in Podman, works nicely as long as you run: podman unshare chown 1000:1000 /path/to/wiki/data https://www.redhat.com/en/bl…

Is this a good choice for a company? These sorts of "hacker" solutions inevitably fall flat because people want a bunch of bells and whistles and don't mind things like never being able to find anything (arguably the single most important feature of a wiki) or being able to integrate their documentation with other systems.

It integrated well with our LDAP server. Its search is great, and everything is plain text so you can do whatever you like. It has a rich text editor but you can also edit plain text.

Re: How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

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you’ll need to increase the resources to atleast "Atleast" isn't a word. I looked at wiki.js and I don't understand why you wouldn't just install Mediawiki. It only takes a few minutes and wiki.js doesn't look any more sophisticated at a glance.

You seem to be copping alot of flak for that comment

Re: How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

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post #12

Can highly recommend outline ( https://www.getoutline.com/ ). You can self-host or opt for the hosted version. Built and maintained by one of the linear devs.

Another vote for Outline - it works really well, has „multiplayer“ support (although that is only a nicety in my book), is constantly improved.

Also, Dokuwiki is nice, if a little dated on the UI side of things.

Re: How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this a good choice for a company? These sorts of "hacker" solutions inevitably fall flat because people want a bunch of bells and whistles and don't mind things like never being able to find anything (arguably the single most important feature of a wiki) or being able to integrate their documentation with other systems.

It integrated well with our LDAP server. Its search is great, and everything is plain text so you can do whatever you like. It has a rich text editor but you can also edit plain text.

Nice, thank you!

Re: How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

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post #18

Why not just use Google Drive or Office 365? You probably have one of them anyway, people know how to use it, and all the access control features are built in. Plus you can easily export all your docs and just put them on an ftp server in the worst case.

Now that Google docs has tabs...

does it have vertical tabs within horizontal yet?

Re: How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

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I tried to run Wiki.js in the past but it's really buggy and has a lot of spinners/loading pages for what is supposed to be simple html pages so i've been looking for a good self-hosted alternative since. I love how there are so many options in the HN comments, and some of them look really good as well, however I still struggle to believe that none of them are self-contained. All of them require a a redis container,…

I've had MediaWiki (which is Wikipedia) run fine on its own in the past with minimal requirements.

Re: How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

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I've used Wiki.js for a while but was always annoyed of the loading times. It's just one of those applications that render everything in the client.

So I haven't stopped looking for other applications and when I tried BookStack I knew I found my solution: Loads amazingly fast, while running in the simplest environments as it's PHP.

Previously I have also used DokuWiki, which was also simple but I didn't want to write in Markdown, and especially explain it to others.

https://www.bookstackapp.com/

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