Wiki.js
js.wiki

Today I was looking at some ways to get wikis for games that are very in depth offline for personal use. Wiki.js was one of the more prominent results so I looked into it. I’m no HTML pro, but I do know a few things, enough to make it look decent enough for my own curiosity and usage. I just wanted to share with others who might be interested in something similar!

I absolutely love the layout and how easy it is to move stuff over. Once I made the default theme dark, it was game on. I have spent the last 3 hours moving bits and pieces from the wikis I was interested in over to it. Give it a try!

I’m hosting it through the Apps feature in TrueNAS Scale. Not exposed to the internet. On TrueNAS, I set it up ACL (permissions) with a preset one that I made for quickly giving myself access to anything for my file browser.

THANK YOU to all the devs and anyone who has supported this project. Excellent piece of software!

EDIT
Here is a screenshot of what I’ve dragged over and reformatted from the Stardew Valley Wiki into Wiki.js.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Been a while now, so some of these comparison points might not be accurate. But iirc, it came down to doku ultimately being easier to maintain (in my opinion), easily expandable with themes and modules, and a local file system that was extremely easy to understand (no database, pages are text files).

    • Unlearned9545@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I have maintained both wiki softwares, and didnt find either difficult to maintain. Wiki.js does use postgres database which makes serving slightly faster and searching way faster. But it just stores the text files in the database and you can sync with various solutions including git. For wiki.js I mainly edited from vscode as that allowed me to make mass changes (including uploading thousands of images at once) a breeze.

    • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I see! I believe this is my first time ever using anything that needed a database, so I’m not really keen to any downsides of a database structure. It does make sense to keep them simple like that, so I will take that into account if I ever feel like simplifying it!

      There are a few options when creating a new page, markdown, RAW HTML, etc. So to make it easy on myself I’ve just been using the HTML for easy import of the wikis I’m interested in.