18 points jMyles | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source

The two things I wish mediawiki had:

* APIs with deeper functional inroads in multiple languages. There are lots of great tools for writing bots, but if you want to write a parser extension, you're stuck with PHP right? Or has that changed?

* Multiplayer. Edit conflicts can be a real pain and turnoff for beginner users. I wish that simultaneous use felt more like a collaborative social experience and less like a minefield.

...but I do think mediawiki is wonderful, and I'm inclined to use it despite these drawbacks.

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havok_at ◴[29 Aug 25 20:34 UTC] No.45069077[source]▶

>>45066567 (OP) #

We use outline (https://github.com/outline/outline) at work and it works pretty well for us. It supports collaborative editing, which was the main reason we went with it.

Personally, I use bookstack (https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack) at home. Mostly because I really like the mental model of using Bookshelves, Books, Chapters and Pages to sort my notes in.

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1. michaelmcdonald ◴[30 Aug 25 02:24 UTC] No.45071399[source]▶

>>45069077 #

My biggest beef with Outline is that I can initially use Markdown, as soon as it is saved, you cannot see the raw markdown again for editing.

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