Ask HN: What wiki does your team use?

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by dglass • 8 years ago

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I'm currently researching wiki's to migrate our documentation over to. We currently have everything stored in trello cards but it's becoming too difficult to manage it all.

I've used Confluence at past companies and really like it actually but after the first 10 users it can get pretty expensive for a wiki.

Are there any alternatives to confluence that your team uses that you've been happy with?

Thanks!

dudul• 8 years ago

A github repo

jlgaddis• 8 years ago

I like and prefer DokuWiki [0]. It's easy to set up and use, doesn't require a database backend (everything is stored in plain-text files), has all of the features I've ever needed (at two different employers), and is open source.

[0] https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki#

dglass• 8 years ago

Thanks! I'll take a look

LarryMade2• 8 years ago

Vote for Dokuwiki too - the markdown syntax is pretty extensive.

app4soft3• 8 years ago

Here is script[1] for `sed` for reformat Markdown to DokuWiki, and here is Perl script[2] for converting HTML to DokuWiki, and here is Perl script[3] for converting DOCX to DokuWiki.

[1] https://gist.github.com/pletiplot/1869031

[2] https://gist.github.com/weirdpercent/5940046

[3] https://gist.github.com/livenson/9446675

mitchellst• 8 years ago

My favorite of these is notion.so

lumberjack• 8 years ago

I use Gitit. Only complaint is, LaTeX integration is too basic for my needs.

jxub• 8 years ago

We use self-hosted readthedocs with sphinx to build our knowledge base at datamaran.

stephenr• 8 years ago

I’m a big fan of simple markdown-in-vcs wikis. If its a git repo you can stick Gollum in front of it and you have a web UI but can still allow devs/ops to clone and edit locally.

atsaloli• 8 years ago

We use GitLab. We can edit through the web UI or through the command line, with Git and Vim. And it's free -- it's part of GitLab Libre, formerly known as the Community Edition.

app4soft3• 8 years ago

Is there a way for install DokuWiki on Github pages website? On forum[1] this is not answered

[1] https://forum.dokuwiki.org/post/59346

app4soft3• 8 years ago

Here is example[1] of team wiki based on AsciiDoc + Github pages website.

[1] https://github.com/jMonkeyEngine/wiki

PerRutherford• 8 years ago

I think notion.so is a great option (for smaller teams - I have not really tested with many users).

newgame• 8 years ago

I have worked on the initial version of www.stiki.io. Our vision was to create a super fast/lean wiki for teams. It's a subscription based model. No stakes in the company anymore but I think it might work for your use case.

mkrishnan• 8 years ago

Why don’t you create your own? If you have something difficult to manage in Trello cards and you really care about contents then probably you should create your own or fork a open source one.

deftnerd• 8 years ago

I'm a big fan of BookStack. It's a Laravel based (PHP/Mysql) based app that performs well, is very stable, has a good interface, good features, etc.

[1] https://www.bookstackapp.com/

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