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?

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GitHub has free wiki that multiple people can edit. There's also wiki.js self hosted via digital ocean, which will have a small cost: https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/wiki-js?refcode=5f7445bfa4d0
There's also this list of hosted wikis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_hosting_services
- Thanks for sharing!
  Would the community be ok with a GitHub wiki? I know sometimes non tech people find GitHub hard to use.
  Wikijs was on my radar, https://www.getoutline.com/ as well.
  But having to self host might a bit harder, except if we find volunteers in the community willing to do it
  
  I like the GitHub wiki, at least to start.
  Pros:
  free
  anyone can contribute changes, but vandalism is all but impossible
  can have multiple people with commit access, and that list can be easily adjusted as needed
  history of a file is transparent, if you know the tools
  easily forkable, eg if the original owner goes AFK
  Cons:
  GitHub can be overwhelming for less technical people
  many here on lemmy don't trust Microsoft (could always move to gitlab or something)
  no connection between user accounts here and there (pro for me, but I can see it as a con)
  I vote one of the mods takes the initiative and creates the wiki as a test run, and slowly add non-mods as needed based on contributions. If we don't like it, moving to something else shouldn't be too annoying.

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?
- 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.

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