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Do you want to create your own Wiki? You might want to try some of these options:
(All of these are free and open source)
馃尡 @mediawiki - The software used by Wikipedia
馃尡 @TiddlyWiki - Personal wiki stored in a single HTML file
馃尡 @FeatherWiki - Lightweight software for making wikis, notebooks, databases in a single file
馃尡 @bookstack - Easy-to-use simple wiki & documentation software
馃尡 @xwikiorg - Wiki software aimed at businesses, libre alternative to Confluence
p.s. Thank you to the many people suggesting this should be added to the list:
馃尡 @dokuwiki - Easy to use wiki software that doesn't need a database
(And DokuWiki is FOSS too, like all the software on this list).
@homegrown @dokuwiki I use dokuwiki for my personal notes, very easy to deploy wherever PHP is supported.
@homegrown @mediawiki @TiddlyWiki @FeatherWiki @bookstack @xwikiorg : do you know how hard it is to maintain a wiki, in terms of safety ? Are there security updates like can be the case of a CMS like Wordpress ?
I am growing tired of Wordpress (and its widgets) for my website and am considering switching to a wiki, but I don't know how high maintenance it is, among other things.
There are usually security updates for all maintained software including wikis.
The easy way to host your own wiki is to use a managed hosting company who do all the techy stuff for you as well as hosting it. This includes updates, installation, fixing bugs etc.
For example https://en.wiki-valley.com and https://cloud68.co/managed-hosting/mediawiki offer Mediawiki managed hosting. You can find more Mediawiki hosting companies at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services
@homegrown
I鈥檓 happily running @dokuwiki since ages. Plain php, easy to set up and easy to backup as no db required. Features that came in handy for me are LDAP, writing in markdown and oembed support.
@aretaon @homegrown @dokuwiki same!
The lack of "wysiwyg" editor out of the box might put people off, but add ons fix this.
I have been using my DokuWiki install for years - it's great!
@homegrown I've heard of one called Ibis (https://ibis.wiki) and that's open source, can't remember their fediverse username lol.
@homegrown I have my own mediawiki instance and I can鈥檛 say I recommend it. Picked it primarily because I wanted my wiki to look like wikipedia. However, a big part of that look comes from infoboxes, which are NOT part of mediawiki but are defined by templates and modules that need to be imported from wikipedia manually. It鈥檚 also not trivial to maintain. For most people, a simpler, more modern wiki would be better.
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