Recommendations for lightweight wiki servers?

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I currently run a personal wiki for some notes, recipes, and stuff. It’s set up using Wiki.js as the server. I’m the only regular user, and I feel like it’s a bit of an overkill.

Does someone have any suggestions for a more lightweight wiki server? I tried DokuWiki and mostly like it. But the UI is very old and dare I say, ugly. I love the UI of Wiki.js btw.

My main criteria is that it should be lightweight. I don’t need fancy editing features. Happy to work with raw html or markdown files.

I need some kind of permission management to hide some private wikis from the public, but otherwise I don’t really care.

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marsokod@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have been using Bookstack, I like it though it is missing a few features I would love:

you cannot insert a video in it

there is no possibility to comment on a particular text

the permissions management is only done with roles. That’s fine generally but I wanted to be able to share a specific page with a specific user, and for that I had to basically create a dedicated role for this use.
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- bluefishcanteen@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Seconding Bookstack. I’ve embedded videos in it and I don’t recall anything special to do it. I also think there’s a way to comment on specific pages…mostly because I remember disabling that functionality.
  
  Agreed on the roles and permissions aspect though. It’s pretty standard to do that for bigger deployments, but it may be a bit overkill for a single user instance.
  
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GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mediawiki

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- foggy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  +1.
  
  And if you truly need lightweight,
  
  Dokuwiki
  
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  - Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I just left Docuwiki for Notion but i used Dokuwiki for almost 10 years and it was perfect for simple documentation.
    
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poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Dokuwiki doesn’t have to look old, it is only the default theme that does. Just install a nicer theme and the Prosemirror addon and it looks and functions like any other modern wiki.

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Shimitar@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Using dokuwiki, just cut the cheese for me.

Its “old” because it uses php, but its quite solid and doesn’t need a database, so all plus to me.

There are cool and modern looking themes too.

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- SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I second DokuWiki. It’s super lightweight and infinitely customizable with plugins.
  
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Buckshot@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve been using silverbullet.md

Its more notes than wiki I guess so depends what you’re after.

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shiftymccool@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I needed something dead-simple to keep homelab documentation. If it’s not simple, I probably wouldn’t keep up with changes. I landed on An Otter Wiki github.com/redimp/otterwiki

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solrize@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Fossil-scm.org is very lightweight (2mb ram) and does quite a lot. See if you like it.

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- Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s pretty neat!
  
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- SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hadn’t heard of it before. Looks promising, thank you.
  
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lorentz@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use mycorrhiza.wiki it is not very fancy but it is a single executable file and stores pages in a git repository, so no database is needed and doing the export is as simple as reading some files.

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thedarkfly@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s apparently early in development, but there’s an ActivityPub implementation of wikis made by one of Lemmy’s dev.

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matcha_addict@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mkdocs fits your criteria imo. But if you want something more customizable, you could use the astro.build docs template

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eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It doesn’t cover permissions unless you are willing to setup http auth on your webserver but I really enjoy mdbooks. I looks clean and still is just markdown.

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Jabbermuggel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use tiddlywiki for my single-user wiki. The setup is dead simple, one html file on your computer you open directly. There is also a nodejs server implementation, which I use.

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linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You said you liked the look of wiki.js but didn’t say what you didn’t like (unless I was missed it). Why not just use wiki.js? If you want permissions you’ll likely end up with other features like editing too.

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- SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I currently use Wiki.js but it’s a bit too much. The image size is around 500MB. I don’t see why I need such a huge program for hosting essentially text files and some images.
  
  From the comments, DokuWiki with a modern theme, Fossil-SCM, and MkDocs seem nice. I’ll probably try some of these during the weekend.
  
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smpl@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use gitit and it’s already packaged in most Linux distros.

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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use markdown + mkdocs. You could also try lektor.

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homegrowntechie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Trilium. Share the nodes in the tree that you want public.

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TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For what’s worth Wordpress can work as a wiki with a wiki theme like this one. Modern standards dictate that it’s light… doesn’t consume resources when not in use and it’s easy to install and manage.

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