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by VexorLoophole 2164 days ago
Also wanted to get into creating a local 'wiki' or knowledge base. Sadly I didn't hit the sweet spot till now. My requirements are:

- future proof (at least not only a one man project) - Fast search over all informations - Fast creation of quick notes (inbox) - Mobile iOS client

Currently I am stuck with Notion, which has a great 'database' concept. Which is fun to use. Sadly it's too slow. If I want to take a quick note on the go "Google for M6x40 Screws" I need 10-20 seconds with Notion.

I don't even mind paying for such service...

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MediaWiki is certainly future proof and has lots of inertia, including a large API surface area, a large ecosystem, and the backing of a deep-pocketed benefactor. An extremely underrated/largely unknown project is Miraheze[0] which is a non-profit that provides free MediaWiki instances to people.

I wish proper wikis hadn't gone by the wayside. (I think it has a lot to do with MediaWiki's default skin being out of style, and people not realizing they can change it.) Most of all, I wish open source projects would stop dumping a bunch of Markdown in a repo somewhere and calling it a "wiki". They're not even close to comparable.

My two biggest complaints about MediawWiki are 1. PHP, and 2. no well-supported way to opt-in to a different syntax like Markdown or AsciiDoc or pretty much anything that isn't MediaWiki-flavored wikitext.

0. https://miraheze.org/