Ask HN: Best internal wikis?

7 points·akgerber··6 comments

The same question was almost 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3933429 But that's a very long time in the internet world.

In my research, there doesn't seem to be a new Wiki that's unseated MediaWiki— what are people using, and what do people like or dislike, in the world of wikis today?

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I run a local instance of Dokuwiki locally... plain text, no database required (https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki)

YMMV, but "TWiki is the most popular wiki used behind corporate firewall; it gets downloaded 3,000 times a month and is in use by the majority of Fortune 500 companies." --- It's free... http://www.wikimatrix.org/show/TWiki

The user interface for MediaWiki is poor. It is somewhat challenging for people who are not technical.

For instance, you can't easily upload a picture, or select a text to put as title, or add links. Most of the time you'll be forced to write wiki code manually.

Used it with Markdown. Wasn't so bad.

MediaWiki is pretty terrible. In particular their table markup is just atrocious - at least the way our setup is configured; there might be a better variant.

It makes Sharepoint seem pleasurable, which is a feat indeed.

We're using Apache Bloodhound, but only minimally by about 2 people. It does what it's supposed to do; that's the only thing I can say about it. There definitely seems to be room for improvement.

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