Wikis

Top 23 Wiki Open-Source Projects

  • Outline

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

    Project mention: My Open-Source toolkit for 2024 | dev.to | 2024-02-11

    Outline is another open-source tool I’ve been using lately for note-taking and knowledgebase purposes. Previously, my app of choice for this was Bear.app. It worked out well for markdown notes, but I needed something more like a wiki to organize content. I discovered Outline in late 2022 and found it to be a snappy experience and just what I needed: nestable collections, markdown, and a decent search experience. Outline delivers that and more. It also offers real-time collaborative editing like Google Docs and public shares for either a single page or for all nested pages of a share.

  • Wiki.js

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

    Project mention: Adding a simple light box in wiki.js | dev.to | 2024-03-20

    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.

  • InfluxDB

    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.

  • BookStack

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

    Project mention: 15 open-source tools to elevate your software design workflow | dev.to | 2024-01-22

    Link | Demo | Github | License

  • TiddlyWiki

    A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.

    Project mention: It's 29 Delphi, I mean | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-22

    > What does ownership mean here?

    It means owning the code and the data. With webapps, the code and data are hosted and owned, the users do not own the code, cannot run it independently. This is a clear dileneation between owner and user, and the owners can use that clear line to create artificial scarcity of various kinds. (The most popular being the subscription SaaS model). It's also easier to defend your IP since end users never see your binaries.

    I like to make my software single html files whenever possible. People can just save them and run them locally. Havent met anyone who cares yet though.

    I like that idea a lot, and I care. I think others care, but yes, it's a niche interest. Take a look at https://tiddlywiki.com/ for an example of a fairly successful project that uses the single html format running locally. However it suffers from limitations on File|Save which often requires a separate runtime of some kind to support.

    Another project that approaches this ideal is https://redbean.dev/, @jart's tiny, performant, featureful single-file webserver. In this case the "single file" is a server executable + zip whose state must be updated on the command-line, but I think hits a sweet spot in terms of practicality, and a global minima when it comes to minimizing dependencies. (Redbean bundles SQLite and Lua so it's also possible to do through-the-web state updates as in a traditional webapp.)

    My own project, Simpatico, aspires to be something along these lines. Eventually your browser tab is both a client and server process, connecting via websockets to other connected browsers, storing all state locally. I call this pattern "monomorphism", a play on the "isomorphic" javascript SPA. The server[2] is currently written in ~1 node file, but eventually I would like to port to redbean (and greenbean, the websocket version of redbean, but it isn't quite ready yet). The server grew several features to support a fast, practical BTD loop using markdown[1], and safe, performant execution on the public internet[2], but ultimately I'd like to pare it down to serving a single html file and allow the connected clients to provide all diversity of experience. I've used it to explore all kinds of browser apis, from crypto[3] to svg[4] to writing my own libraries (combine[4] and stree[5]). And it's all running locally, and easily hosted on a $5 VPS, and its all open source.

    1 - https://simpatico.io/lit.md

    2 - https://simpatico.io/reflector

    3 - https://simpatico.io/crypto

    4 - https://simpatico.io/combine

    5 - https://simpatico.io/stree

  • Dokuwiki

    The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine

    Project mention: List of your reverse proxied services | /r/selfhosted | 2023-12-05

    Dokuwiki for Documentation

  • 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.

    Project mention: The most interesting Open Source web applications | dev.to | 2023-06-15

    Wikipedia that runs on MediaWiki which is written in PHP. source code

  • Raneto

    Markdown powered Knowledgebase Wiki for Node.js

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • Gitit

    A wiki using HAppS, pandoc, and git

    Project mention: Elixir for Cynical Curmudgeons | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-03

    You're correct.

    It says at the bottom: powered by https://github.com/jgm/gitit

    Readme states that: "Gitit is a wiki program written in Haskell. It uses Happstack for the web server and pandoc for markup processing."

  • django-wiki

    A wiki system with complex functionality for simple integration and a superb interface. Store your knowledge with style: Use django models.

  • jingo

    Node.js based Wiki

    Project mention: Anyone know of a free dev docs like confluence? | /r/webdev | 2023-06-08

    I use jingo as a personal wiki. It uses markdown syntax and provides a simple online editing interface. Not sure how it scales but you can self host and it’s free. https://github.com/claudioc/jingo

  • XWiki

    The XWiki platform

  • Cowyo

    A feature-rich wiki webserver for minimalists :cow: :speech_balloon:

  • Realms

    Git based wiki inspired by Gollum

  • Wikitten

    Wikitten is a small, fast, PHP wiki, and the perfect place to store your notes, code snippets, ideas, and so on.

  • Olelo

    Wiki with git backend

  • commonplace

    A server for your markdown files. Give it a directory, and Commonplace gives you a url, pretty pages, and quick editing.

  • Pepperminty Wiki

    A wiki in a box

    Project mention: Hey guys, what's the best self-hosted wiki service that's both stunning and easy on resources? Looking for something lightweight but still aesthetically pleasing. Any recommendations? | /r/selfhosted | 2023-05-02

    Not sure about aesthetically pleasing, but my Pepperminty Wiki is flat files and very lightweight? https://peppermint.mooncarrot.space/

  • amusewiki

    Text::Amuse-based publishing platform

  • Codex

    Extendable Documentation Platform written in Laravel 5. Generate easy and awesome documentation! (by codex-project)

  • quantizr

    Quanta is an open-source CMS with ChatGPT and Social Media (Fediverse) features

  • MoinMoin

    MoinMoin Wiki (1.9, also: 1.5a ... 1.8), stable, for production wikis

  • Wikifeat

    Extensible wiki system using CouchDB and written in Golang

  • WackoWiki

    WackoWiki is a light and handy Wiki-engine.

  • SaaSHub

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-20.

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Wiki projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 Outline 23,652
2 Wiki.js 23,250
3 BookStack 13,602
4 TiddlyWiki 7,687
5 Dokuwiki 3,979
6 Mediawiki 3,907
7 Raneto 2,704
8 Gitit 2,124
9 django-wiki 1,766
10 jingo 1,015
11 XWiki 921
12 Cowyo 918
13 Realms 834
14 Wikitten 731
15 Olelo 241
16 commonplace 170
17 Pepperminty Wiki 169
18 amusewiki 160
19 Codex 146
20 quantizr 136
21 MoinMoin 136
22 Wikifeat 101
23 WackoWiki 38
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