I currently use DokuWiki but previously used MediaWiki. Before hosting my own site I had a TiddlyWiki on Neocities. Do you host your own site? Do you post your stuff in other places like forums? I'm active mostly on the CBB forum.

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[–] VictorSidhe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I currently use MediaWiki too, yet struggling with mermaid, html and infoboxes @_@, anyone who expects a good looking wiki must know few tricks over there...

[–] early_riser@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

The switch from MediaWiki to DokuWiki was motivated by ease of namespace creation. I use the blog plugin (and a corresponding blog namespace) to catch spontaneous thoughts. There's a stories namespace for narrative content, and a namespace for archiving the main thread on the CBB forum before I started the wiki. There's a lore namespace for more wiki-like stuff that has graduated from the blog and megathread sections to be more polished.

There might be a performance hit thanks to everything being stored in the filesystem rather than in a database, but direct file access allows a lot of flexibility. The other big downside to DW is it's very much not "batteries included". You probably need at least a few plugins to get it up to speed with some of MW's features, like page categories (tags) and listing wanted and orphaned pages.