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.

  • marsokod
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    149 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.
    • @bluefishcanteen@sh.itjust.works
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      49 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.

      • Bakkoda
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        89 months ago

        I just left Docuwiki for Notion but i used Dokuwiki for almost 10 years and it was perfect for simple documentation.

    • @N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Fossil looks really cool ! To bad they don’t approve a container setup ! They surely have their reason.

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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          19 months ago

          Wow, they really hate the idea that everyone could just spin up a Docker container with their wiki software.

          • folkrav
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            9 months ago

            Eh, they just don’t pre-build and publish the image themselves. Why assume malice? 🤷‍♂️

            Btw, Fossil isn’t really a wiki software but a full on source control system a la git, with its own front end, that includes a wiki. It’s developed and used by the SQLite developers. It’s a single executable, so it’s pretty easy to run anywhere already, I assume they may just provide the Dockerfile for convenience…

            • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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              19 months ago

              Given this context it seems much more reasonable having such a complex and long instructions page on how to run it in Docker. This seems to be something you don’t just try and run simply for checking it out.

              I looked at the instructions it under the premise of “lightweight wiki server” and did not check in detail what this specific software is.

  • poVoq
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    69 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.

  • Shimitar
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    59 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.

  • @lorentz@feddit.it
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    49 months ago

    I use https://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.

  • @matcha_addict@lemy.lol
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    39 months ago

    Mkdocs fits your criteria imo. But if you want something more customizable, you could use the astro.build docs template

  • Eskuero
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    39 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.

  • @Jabbermuggel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    28 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.

  • smpl
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    29 months ago

    I use gitit and it’s already packaged in most Linux distros.

  • @linuxguy@lemmy.gregw.us
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    19 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.

    • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρєOP
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      29 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.