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Any recommendations for making a free or low-cost wiki for personal projects? (NOT Fandom though) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by sighence@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone - wondering what advice you can offer for building something like this. Ideally I’d like to create a simple wiki for creative projects (mostly for content in the DnD campaigns my group has run over the years) and give others editing access, but would prefer something free or low-cost (no more than $10 monthly would be nice). How might one go about doing this? Just bite the bullet and pay for hosting? Maybe use a service like Azure or Linode?

I should add, I would rather avoid Fandom/wikia pages since that platform is an ad-riddled mess and I dislike using it. Most guidance I’ve found online mentions fandom so I’m hoping for different opinions.

I’m moderately tech savvy but have never done self-hosting (though I’d give it a shot if it’s simple enough to build and keep secure). Thanks!

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[–] dbx12@programming.dev 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You could try out mediawiki (that's the software Wikipedia is running on) on a local docket container on your machine to see if it actually is what you want or if you would prefer a simpler wiki software. Depending on how often you need it, you could self host on a raspberry pi in your home and make it accessible to your group through dyndns.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

I ran a mediawiki for almost exactly that for a while on a really old computer that was collecting dust. Eventually I turned it into a VM. I still have it somewhere... You could totally host that on linode or digital ocean.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tons of plugins for Mediawiki as well

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Semantic Mediawiki is an especially useful and powerful one.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

There are even free Hosters available (like oracle) which would be plenty for a mediawiki. Point a free dyndns to it and you are done for free.

No backups though without some additional work.