Gollum VS Dokuwiki

Depends on your target user. If you want something really simple for developers, https://github.com/gollum/gollum is pretty neat (is what powers the Wiki system on GitHub), while if you want something simple for people who aren't developers, something like Mediawiki would fit better. Although Mediawiki requires a database, you can use SQLite (which is basically a file on disk as a DB) for it.

Dokuwiki is also a neat old-school alternative that basically treats files on disk as articles/pages, so no (other) DB needed.

Not many wiki site engines based on Markdown work directly from git as cleanly as this.

There's a few of them though, such as this old Ruby lang standby with a decade's worth of features that a decade ago was a way to host your same GitHub Pages site locally, supporting SSO:

https://github.com/gollum/gollum

https://github.com/gollum/gollum/wiki/Gollum-via-Rack-and-CA...

I think the web interface for the gollum wiki (which used to power GitHub wikis, but I think they have diverged) supports org mode files.

https://github.com/gollum/gollum

One of the cool things with the update adding git support to GitHub Wiki was that it was using gollum (https://github.com/gollum/gollum) and GitHub wanted to become more open source themselves (https://github.blog/2010-08-12-making-github-more-open-git-b...). Sadly, it seems like they have diverged by now, according to the GitHub Wiki on the gollum repository.

Seems there is still some historical artifacts from it left.

Arguably something like ikiwiki or gollum is doing this. These are both wikis that use git as their backend 'database'. I happen to like wikis like this a lot better over wikis that store their data in mysql or some other traditional SQL backend.

Gollum is self-hosted and uses git for version control https://github.com/gollum/gollum

https://github.com/gollum/gollum ?

For something quick and easy consider https://github.com/gollum/gollum#markups which powers Github Wikis.

Note that multi-user auth is NOT supported out of the box however.

That seems something in the ballpark of my favorite wiki software:

https://github.com/gollum/gollum

Edit and view pages as a normal markdown wiki. But the backend is just a git repository of markdown files so you can also just use your text editor and git pull/push. Usable by any novice but with the ideal power user interface.

DokuWiki.

This database-free FOSS wiki engine [1] with a focus on simplicity is 19 years old, still gets updated, has useful extensions for additional features, is a great choice for many uses, has adopters that use and love it, and has an estimated 50,000-250,000 installations [2].

As someone said, "DokuWiki is and will remain king for many simple reasons" [3].

[1] https://www.dokuwiki.org

Dokuwiki for Documentation

I have used DokuWiki in few personal and work (non-gamedev) projects. Seems to work well. https://www.dokuwiki.org/

While considering alternatives, I thought about DokuWiki, which looks like an unlikely solution, and Nextcloud, which I've already used in the past. Both seem a good option in their own right, though I favor Nextcloud because it's a more direct approach. However, I'm inclined towards a solution that's leaner and less bloated. Nevertheless, if any of those is the one that is most likely to solve my dilemma, I'm open towards using any of those two. I'm also investigating Anytype.io, which seems like the best option, but it seems it works with an invitation.

FYI, the PR is https://github.com/dokuwiki/dokuwiki/pull/3798 if you want to read about it

The oldest and still supported software that will cover all your list - is: DokuWiKi It is web based, but there on site you can even find portable installation on flash drive. No database, plain files as backend.

I already have a Dokuwiki set up on my home server, which would make it easy to attach notes and datasheets to the various items. But I wonder if there are some purpose made solutions for this. Not too complicated or it won't be updated very often...

joplin or DokuWiKi

DocuWiKi - one of the oldest one, no need for database and it even has thumbdrive version