What's the best free Wiki System to document software?

• mermaid

  122 66,838 10.0 JavaScript

  Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown

  

Integration with some syntax-based diagramming tools (Mermaid or similar) would be great as well.

• Wiki.js

  122 23,451 7.1 Vue

  Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

  

Look into wiki.js (link here). It has quite a few nice features and I've been using it for 2 years now and I'm quite pleased with it.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• MkDocs

  114 18,257 9.0 Python

  Project documentation with Markdown.

  

You can take this a step further and combine it with a tool like MkDocs which serves the docs in the browser, and might be more what you're looking for.

• Talkyard

  9 1,670 9.0 TypeScript

  A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.

We are using https://www.talkyard.io to set this up - it is a stackoverflow-esque community interface with a bit of slack mixed in.

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