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solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Is it public facing in the sense that randos will edit it? If not, the simplest thing is probably fossil-scm.org which is very light weight, but it’s actually a version control system with a built in wiki, so its editing interface is a bit weird compared with Wikipedia. It is pretty fast though I’ve only played with it, not run anything public facing from it.

Setting up Mediawiki is more complicated but it does have a familiar interface. I don’t know how much tuning and configuration you have to do to allow it to handle a lot of traffic, but obviously with enough caching and stuff, it scales all the way up to Wikipedia level.

I’ve also used Gitit and I think MoinMoin but not with any significant amount of traffic.

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rezz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
By the way fossil-scm.org/home/timeline is the most beautiful webpage I’ve ever seen.

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rezz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Randos will not edit. There may be users who edit in the future, but it’s not a “register and edit” sort of thing. It’s more of a living breathing guide, that has the flow of Wikipedia (as well as the SEO benefits–it’s the type of information people will search and want to find, and land on it in this format to learn and reference).

Really it’s better to think of it as SEO-optimized wiki formatting. There may be editors in the future, but not in the near future, as a lot of the content will be covered. If there’s editing, it’ll be submission-based and approved or denied.

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- solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You might try Fossil then. It uses something like 2MB of server ram instead of gigabytes. It makes me wonder where we all went wrong.
  
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