cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54850044
Today I was looking at some ways to get wikis for games that are very in depth offline for personal use. Wiki.js was one of the more prominent results so I looked into it. I’m no HTML pro, but I do know a few things, enough to make it look decent enough for my own curiosity and usage. I just wanted to share with others who might be interested in something similar!
I absolutely love the layout and how easy it is to move stuff over. Once I made the default theme dark, it was game on. I have spent the last 3 hours moving bits and pieces from the wikis I was interested in over to it. Give it a try!
I’m hosting it through the Apps feature in TrueNAS Scale. Not exposed to the internet. On TrueNAS, I set it up ACL (permissions) with a preset one that I made for quickly giving myself access to anything for my file browser.
THANK YOU to all the devs and anyone who has supported this project. Excellent piece of software!
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Yeah, as many said: It’s dead. I was heavily invested into Wiki.JS but cannot recommend it to anyone anymore due to the antics of the developer. Even if the mysterious new major version that should fix every issue comes out at some point, as long as the development policies don’t change it’s not worth it.
I am currently actively moving everything away from it.
What is your wiki of choice for replacement?
Tbh: I haven’t found a really good replacement yet (we are simultaneously coming off confluence as well and that is even harder)
What we tried:
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Bookstack: I.can.not.understand.what.people.like.about It.Period. From my point of view it’s one of the worst systems on the market. Why? The fact that it only allows three different levels of hierarchy, the fact that by default all your images are public and their recommended solution is security by obscurity instead of proper handling it(which it can do) or their absolutely abhorent permission handling.
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Xwiki: It’s… Clumsy. Possibly the most capable one, but it’s Java and munshes resources like they are free and it’s bothersome to setup/get working. Once it works it’s extremely capable,especially from a business point of view. It’s one of the close contenders for my confluence customers atm.
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DokuWiki has become pretty capable,but takes a good theme and a few modules to be “up to modern standards”. The second close contender.
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Another major contender is also BlueSpice. Will look into that next week.
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Last but not least outline is also an idea. Currently looking into that.
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For my personal reference,especially for everything self hosted I used to maintain a fairly extensive Wiki.js,but I have found it more and more bothersome as a split between the configuration assets and the wiki was always there. So nowadays it’s often more integrated and stringent to use my GIT repository (forgejo) to keep my documentation as well.
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The same approach is also a nice one for my work and we still discuss if we might “make it work” with our project management (Redmine) and it’s wiki component.
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Lastly for a personal wiki Tiddly might be enough, btw.
Try to advise people bookstack is super opinionated. I personally don’t like it but I guess some do.
I run dokuwiki and generally like it but my only gripe is it’s not pure markdown.
Another you could check out is Otterwiki. I like a lot about it but don’t actually run it so couldn’t know entirely.
Is there a good option that can export the whole Wiki into a PDF with hyperlinks to different chapters and such?
Afaik bluestack is the best option for that but I might be mistaken
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I moved to Outline, more functions, easier user management and public sharing imo
I tried docmost too, it has a cleaner look than Wiki.js, but SSO is enterprise only. That was a killer for me
I used Wiki.js for years, but it seems pretty dead. Sometimes after months there is a new release with just 1 or 2 bugfixes. Yeah I know… He is working on V3 with many new features (that other wikis already have) and so on. He is doing this for 4 or 5 years now.
People asked to help, to contribute or donate… He doesn’t want anything, he wants to develop on his own (you can read this in his Discord)
My opinion: stay away from Wiki.js and get a better one like Docmost, Bookstack or Outline.
Outline requires license for sso features too:
Purchasing an Outline license enables access to many additional features such as SAML, security audit log, structured data attributes, and the Confluence importer.
For SAML yes, but you can use many other options including OIDC without a license.
But not for OAuth.
WikiJS 3 still hasn’t been released an version 2 is dead. I’m using bookstack now instead
I tried it in the past and it felt too heavy for my use case. Also for some reason the sidebar menu doesn’t show all the items at all times but instead keeps only showing the ones related to the branch you just went into.
Also it seems pretty dead updates wise
Mdbook is really nice if you mind the lack of dyanimic editing in a web browser
We use wiki.js at work, its an easier way to build a learning platform with it than learning and building something like moodle.
