1y ago

Where should we create our wiki?

Hello everyone,

As you all know, Lemmy does not support wikis at the moment. I have seen other communities using solutions such as rentry.co (example: https://rentry.co/manjaro-controversies) to host their wiki content, do you have any suggestion on another solution we could use?

You're viewing a single thread.

16 comments

I feel like I'm missing the point here - what's wrong with a lemmy post?
- Ability for other users to edit it, mostly
  
  All users or limited to mods?
  
  The ideal way should be to have discrete access management: all mods can edit, members can suggest changes, then if a member is well-known he can get a special right to edit without mod approval, etc
  This kind of access management would only be possible with an external solution for now
  
  Markdown in a git repo hosted on gitlab or similar can achieve this. Merge request would be used for suggestions, owner/developer/guest/etc roles for access management. It would have a slight barrier to entry, but it's not impossibly high. GitLab also has we "web ide" to edit text in the browser.
  
  That can be an option. Once everyone has seen this thread, I'll probably organize a vote to see what the community prefers (probably early next week)
- A community like this will get people coming for answers to basic questions like "How do credit cards work" and "should I get a loan or a lease on my car". Having a wiki provides a set place we can point to that has consistent answers to those basic questions, so they're not answered differently every time they're asked.
  
  This bit is absolutely solved by Lemmy - just pin an FAQ post, make it read only and note it in the sidebar.
  
  The editable point has been made (workaround: make a new post periodically), but here are some other considerations:
  organization - at a certain point, a massive post is hard to navigate; a wiki should show splitting it into sub-pages (could link to other lemmy threads, but that kinda sucks to maintain)
  searchable - once it's in multiple pages, I'd want to skip the index and search for something directly
  linkable - I can link a lemmy post, but that link can bit rot if the pinned link changes
  edit history - sometimes advice changes, if you use git, you can explain why in the commit message without cluttering up the actual text; likewise, if we find new advice to be bad, we can easily undo it later since the old versions are still there (esp. if it's something complex like a flowchart)
  can be shared by other communities, like maybe collaborate with an investing community, or a community for financial advisors
  discussion - if advice is contentious, it can be discussed away from the main community, so meta posts don't clutter regular discussion (could solve with a separate meta community)
  I think a separate wiki has a ton of value.

16 comments