I have a self hosted media server, and I want my family to use it more so I don’t have to do everything for them. I think the best way to do that is to have a wiki available on the local network where they can see a reference of how to use things. What is the best way to accomplish this?
I’m running Ubuntu Server.
Check out Bookstack. It’s a brilliant piece of software that gets out of your way and has a modern look and feel that your family members will like and appreciate. The challenge will be to get them to use it instead of going straight to you. They may find themselves inconvenienced by having to go to a self-help resource. That’s a them problem and not a you problem though.
+1 for bookstack. Dokuwiki is also a good choice if you want something simpler, but it also doesn’t look as nice.
I use dokuwiki for years now. It’s not that pretty but it works well. No dark mode though afaik
Dark mode can be done by changing the template. You can install a new template, or there’s an admin panel to change the colors, and you can get dark mode that way. But it’s true that there’s no dark mode for some and light mode for others option.
If you have docker installed then you can easily use WikiJS
++for WikiJS!
Sadly, still no clipboard pasting of images
Maybe in v3 🤷🏻♂️
I hope that there will be an update soon
I like Wiki.js but updates seem slow and not all that feature packed either. It’s had placeholders in the admin side of things for what seems like forever.
I agree and this is what was critisied the last time on his blog. See the comments
The comments are interesting and yeah, it’s very much looking like one of those passion projects that’ll never see the light of day at this rate.
I hope that it will get a release this year. On GitHub there is activity visible
Yeah but barely, just look at the releases. It’s all bug fixes as if it’s on maintenance mode.
I’m currently running Dokuwiki as a Docker container, which has a built-in editor, good admin web-ui panel, easy ways to add multiple users, and also baked in access control rules so some can edit certain pages. It is also flat-file so no storing plain text in a database, so you can backup and migrate easily.
There are a lot of alternatives, but Dokuwiki is quite mature, and has that familiar Wiki look that your family might appreciate, rather than it looking like boring/corporate software documentation.
I’ve been using Tiddly Wiki for years now.
It’s just a single file, so no need for a dedicated container!
I remember using tiddly wiki a long time ago. Do you still prefer it over other solutions? I feel like my tiddly wiki would be too large of a file by now to be manageable, but I’m not really sure.
It’s only a few hundred pages and still works well enough I haven’t felt the need to move to anything new.
What’re you using to sync your TiddlyWiki? From your last comment, I started playing around with tiddlywiki again and the first hurdle I ran into is how to sync it between multiple devices. https://noteself.org/ looks interesting, but doesn’t seem maintained anymore.
I don’t actually sync it, I have it on my LAN web server along with my home page etc…
Do you use the nodejs server or something else to save updates? I guess tw calls them savers. I’m trying the nodejs version now and it seems alright, the auto saving is a lot faster than I was expecting
I use the store.php method. Works fine for my use case.
It really mostly depends on if other family members will need to edit the wiki.
- If they’ll be only reading dokuwiki might be best - even a single frontpage with all the info nedded.
- If they will be editing then bookstack is way more friendly for non-technical people as is had a full WYSIWYG editor and you don’t have to bother with markdown.
I run XWiki in Docker.
run it at work. I would say it bit too heavy and too much for home usage.
