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Ask HN: Best self-hosted wiki solution in 2025? Mediawiki or something else?

18 points jMyles | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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.

1. atmosx ◴[30 Aug 25 08:12 UTC] No.45072867[source]▶
I have slightly different needs I suppose, but I settled for https://tiddlywiki.com/ as my SOHO wiki. There is a learning curve, but once you grasp some rather uncommon concepts it's quite good and very easy to setup, backup and manage locally or remotely.