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Ask HN: Best self-hosted wiki solution in 2025? Mediawiki or something else?

8 jMyles 1 8/29/2025, 4:58:15 PM
The two things I wish mediawiki had:

* APIs with deeper functional inroads in multiple languages. There are lots of great tools for writing bots, but if you want to write a parser extension, you're stuck with PHP right? Or has that changed?

* Multiplayer. Edit conflicts can be a real pain and turnoff for beginner users. I wish that simultaneous use felt more like a collaborative social experience and less like a minefield.

...but I do think mediawiki is wonderful, and I'm inclined to use it despite these drawbacks.

Comments (1)

havok_at ยท 42m ago
We use outline (https://github.com/outline/outline) at work and it works pretty well for us. It supports collaborative editing, which was the main reason we went with it.

Personally, I use bookstack (https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack) at home. Mostly because I really like the mental model of using Bookshelves, Books, Chapters and Pages to sort my notes in.