cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/552459
For a hobby of mine, there’s an outdated lore wiki on Fandom. I dislike Fandom and would like to host an alternative. It’s supposed to be accessible to all kinds of people.
I started with mediawiki as that’s what Fandom and Wikipedia are using, so people would be familiar with page structures at least and maybe the editor.
It turned out to be a bit of a pain though. It only has unofficial container images, the documentation is outdated and (what I consider as) core functionality like WYSIWYG editor or simple infoboxes has to be added by extensions or templates. I’m in the process of setting it all up and wondering if it’s worth it (and if I want to maintain it). There’s so many wiki projects it’s hard to keep track, what are y’all using for stuff that’s used by larger communities and simple to use with close-to-default settings?
I use Dokuwiki for my small fantasy wiki project. I use many plugins to achieve the functionality and style that I want, but it works well for my needs. None of the others I looked at could do quite everything I wanted.
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If you wouldn’t mind sharing, I’d love to take a gander at what you’re cooking up!
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Thanks for sharing! I don’t have a ton of experience with MediaWiki and cannot figure out how to go to a random page lol
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Not at all! I did poke around some random pages after you helped me, sorry I didn’t come back to my. Thanks for sharing the update, I’m keen to see how you’re using DW.
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How did you approach finding the proper plugins?
I considered functions that I wanted (for example, tags) and looked to see if there was a plugin that did what I wanted. Dokuwiki’s plugin browser was very useful for this.