manconvert VS Wiki.js

Compare manconvert vs Wiki.js and see what are their differences.

manconvert

Convert troff-style man pages to doxygen source or formatted HTML (by jmarshall)
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manconvert

Posts with mentions or reviews of manconvert. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-18.
  • Ask HN: What are you using for public documentation these days?
    30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2021
    A small Perl script <https://github.com/jmarshall/manconvert> that grinds a subset of man page nroff syntax directly into HTML. (That subset being “the constructs that are used in the man pages that it's used on”.)

    Some of the styling could be improved (those section headings for one!), but IMHO it produces better results than other more general-purpose manpage to HTML converters: see e.g. <https://www.htslib.org/doc/samtools.html>.

Wiki.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of Wiki.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • Adding a simple light box in wiki.js
    1 project | dev.to | 20 Mar 2024
    Wiki.js is a self hosted, open source Wiki that has a lot of awesome functionality. Unfortunately it's lacking some small, but important UI features, like a light box, to enlarge downsized images to it's full size. And unless you want to add a link to each image, to open it in a new tab, you would probably go for a modal view here.
  • Ask HN: What are some good documentation OSS offerings
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024
  • Wiki.js
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2024
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2023
  • How do you host documentation for your spouse or other users?
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 6 Dec 2023
    Can't think of anything that meets all the criteria, there's always some compromise, which might just be the way it is. For example I could 'self-host' otterwiki or wiki.js on a VPS for a pretty small monthly fee, which I could also use for other stuff that doesn't make sense for a home lab, but then I also need to deal with security since it's hosted on the internet. Or I could self-host and just accept that there's risk of it not being available when my wife needs it or if I die suddenly.
  • List of your reverse proxied services
    29 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Dec 2023
    WikiJS as Homepage (a bit unusual, I know...)
  • Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023
    I love PlantUML. I was always fond of it in my early days as a software engineer and still use it today, along with all the various ways to draw diagrams out there, whether it's through a web tool like draw.io or Miro or through markup like PlantUML and Mermaid.

    Some stuff I'd like to share with the rest:

    - PlantUML's default style has improved since the days of red/brown borders, pale yellow boxes, drop shadows and such but I've attempted fixing it before through a preset style [I've made before here](https://gist.github.com/jerieljan/4c82515ff5f2b2e4dd5122d354...). It's obsolete nowadays, since I'm sure someone has made a style generator somewhere, and last I checked, PlantUML allows a monochrome style out of the box.

    - [Eraser](https://app.eraser.io) is promising, considering that it's trying to blend both diagram-as-code markup along with the usual visual diagram editor. I'm still seeing if it's worth picking up since Miro's hard to beat.

    - On an unrelated note, [WikiJS](https://js.wiki/) is a self-hosted wiki that happens to support draw.io, PlantUML and MermaidJS diagrams out of the box. Quite handy to have for your own docs.

    - I use Miro nowadays since it's significantly quicker to draw things freeform and to collaborate live with folks on a whiteboard at the cost of having your diagrams in markup, but it's easy to miss the integration that [you can actually import PlantUML](https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/7004940386578) and Mermaid diagrams in a Miro board too. You can also do edits too, but it's on its own PlantUML section, of course.

  • wiki.js on YugabyteDB
    1 project | dev.to | 24 Jun 2023
    I've asked on LinkedIn which PostgreSQL application you use so that I can check that it works on Yugabyte. Please, continue to answer. To start let's try with Wiki.js, open source wiki software storing into a PostgreSQL database.
  • Tiddlywiki for note taking
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 8 Jun 2023
  • Anyone know of a free dev docs like confluence?
    7 projects | /r/webdev | 8 Jun 2023
    I like https://js.wiki/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing manconvert and Wiki.js you can also consider the following projects:

doks - Everything you need to build a stellar documentation website. Fast, accessible, and easy to use.

Outline - The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

docsy - A set of Hugo doc templates for launching open source content.

Dokuwiki - The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine

datastation-documentation - Source code for the DataStation documentation site

BookStack - A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

crossroad - 🛣 A React library to handle navigation in your WebApp. Built with simple components and React Hooks so your code is cleaner.

Gollum - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.

typesense-docsearch-scraper - A fork of Algolia's awesome DocSearch Scraper, customized to index data in Typesense (an open source alternative to Algolia)

Mediawiki - 🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.

MkDocs - Project documentation with Markdown.

XWiki - The XWiki platform