Wiki Software Recommendations

Users recommend various wiki tools like Wiki.js, DokuWiki, Zim, Gollum, and GitHub/Bitbucket wikis, often preferring lightweight, git-backed, or self-hosted alternatives to Confluence for internal documentation, team collaboration, and personal notes.

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dosethree Nov 22, 2022 View on HN

Bitbucket wikis basically do this.

marcolussetti May 19, 2020 View on HN

I was in a similar situation, and found wiki.js.org to be perfect for my usecases. I write in markdown, and it syncs with a Git repository.

thiagomgd Feb 5, 2020 View on HN

Have you looked at Wiki.js? I played around with it a little bit and it seemed nice

firefoxNX11 Jan 31, 2015 View on HN

any wiki can do this. have u tried confluence/jira?

coned88 Jan 4, 2014 View on HN

Why not use something like dokuwiki? That's what I use.

antb123 Jan 20, 2020 View on HN

Confluence? wiki? Google docs? Github Markdown files? - all of these can work.

boramalper May 8, 2020 View on HN

Check out wiki.js, it is open-source, modern yet quite mature, and has a lot of storage backends that you can choose from.

amanzi Mar 19, 2018 View on HN

Nobody has mentioned Wiki.JS yet, so thought I'd share this: https://wiki.js.org/. I've just started using it and am pretty happy with it so far. It reads markdown files from a git repository every 5 minutes and only adds two comments to the top of each file for navigation purposes. You can edit files in the editor of your choice and just git push it back to the origin master, and then Wiki.JS will pick it

cess11 May 28, 2024 View on HN

For me it's the risk of littering in a project repo.So I use Zim wiki instead: https://zim-wiki.org/

nossid Jan 5, 2022 View on HN

It could be worth looking at Wiki.js (https://js.wiki/). It's not perfect, but I started using a self hosted instance recently and it has worked out ok so far. With markdown and git sync it doesn't feel like I'm stuck if I want to move on to something else in the future, or if I want to do some automation/scripting with the contents.