Hello everyone,

As you all know, Lemmy does not support wikis at the moment. I have seen other communities using solutions such as rentry.co (example: https://rentry.co/manjaro-controversies) to host their wiki content, do you have any suggestion on another solution we could use?

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for sharing!

    Would the community be ok with a GitHub wiki? I know sometimes non tech people find GitHub hard to use.

    Wikijs was on my radar, https://www.getoutline.com/ as well.

    But having to self host might a bit harder, except if we find volunteers in the community willing to do it

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I like the GitHub wiki, at least to start.

      Pros:

      • free
      • anyone can contribute changes, but vandalism is all but impossible
      • can have multiple people with commit access, and that list can be easily adjusted as needed
      • history of a file is transparent, if you know the tools
      • easily forkable, eg if the original owner goes AFK

      Cons:

      • GitHub can be overwhelming for less technical people
      • many here on lemmy don’t trust Microsoft (could always move to gitlab or something)
      • no connection between user accounts here and there (pro for me, but I can see it as a con)

      I vote one of the mods takes the initiative and creates the wiki as a test run, and slowly add non-mods as needed based on contributions. If we don’t like it, moving to something else shouldn’t be too annoying.

      • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Interesting feedback, thanks for sharing.

        About the mods, I’ll probably post something else at some point, as it seems the only current one hasn’t been connected for a while

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Maybe check with the mods at lemmy.world too? If they’re more interested in being active, maybe we should instead try to move the community there.

          I would love an active PF community and I’m willing to help build it, but I don’t want to mod it and I don’t really care where it’s hosted.

          • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            The only mod on [email protected] never posted, seems to be squatting communities, and there’s only one other post since mine about this one 4 days ago.

            I would suggest to keep the community here, we seem to get a few answers in the comments, and lemmy.ml is federated with more instances than LW, which allows to leave the discussion drama aside.

            Great to hear you are wanting an active PF community too!