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I have had great success with Mediawiki and Slate. With Mediawiki, you can use Categories, ex: [[Category:NameHere]], and templates (don't forget to update the CSS) for great organization and consistency. The usage of templates will allow you to be DRY, so if you update the template, where it is embedded will update too.

And Slate was just a pleasure to work with.

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FWIW we are moving out of MediaWiki after 10 years. The search function is horrible and the readability on any devices is not great either (understatement). The latter is with our theme, not sure if you can theme properly. Long sentences, no proper image positioning and scaling, mobile support is lacking, etc. Also versioning is a problem when you need both versions of the page to be readable (e.g. 1.0 and 1.1).

It is great for one thing, everyone can edit it with just their browser. Today, however, you have more options that can do that with a Git+CI backed auto deploy on change.

Did you ever try Elasticsearch on your MediaWiki instance?

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