Wiki.js
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Wiki.js is an extensible open source server wiki-project written in JavaScript.
Features
Some advantages of wiki.js, especially in comparison with MediaWiki, include:
- More visually pleasing, modern interface - uses material icons and user interface
- More modern development and hosting platform - based on javascript (Node.js)
- Better access control, privacy options
- sync pages with a git repository
- better search functionality built-in
- better, simpler documentation
- rapid development - a beta version 3 of wiki.js is due summer 2021 with several new features
Limitations
- No support for backlinks
- Multlingual / translation support not as good as mediawiki’s
- There have been some security issues
- Harder to install correctly, can't use shared hosting
- No 3rd party managed hosting options
- No email notifications
- Have to create separate url path for each page, no spaces, etc.
- Seems like this could automatically be done, like in wordpress, mediawiki
- No easy link curation - paste in a link or reference and have it automatically load a title and potentially other information, like wordpress, wallabag, other options have
- No structured data? - page properties, metadata, content types
- No page redirects, aliases, synonyms
- Can’t edit tag/category pages or use pages as homes for tags/categories
- No schema.org support
- No SEO enhancements
- Not clear on caching, performance enhancements - several complain it’s slower than mediawiki
- Site appears to not work if javascript is disabled
- No section, block editing / linking
- Can’t see recent changes
- No RSS/Atom feeds
- Not as much rich multimedia / embedding support - although raw HTML input is available
- WYSIWYG and markdown editors aren’t easily interchangeable - you have to pick one. It would be nice if the WYSIWYG editor saved in markdown format, like some third party open source editors do.
- No double bracket wiki linking
- No minor changes, change summaries
- Not clear on spam, abuse blocking
- No concurrent editing, conflict handling - although version 3 will apparently support this
- No option to host as a static site
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