cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40841668
Been working on building a wiki over a number of months, but realize it is a ton of work. My goals are:
- No Database, just files and folders for Dokuwiki
- Get the experience to feel accessible and fun for users.
- Make the wiki into something users can save locally and access offline.
The wiki coincides with various DIY and open source projects I’m experimenting with. Thought I’d share here, since this is about the extensions I’m actually using within Dokuwiki. Would love to add more, but just need them to work in daily use first.
Plugins in use:
- SMTP, so users receive their login credentials.
- Templator, for treating pages as templates for re-use.
- Include plugin, for using pages within pages to organize content.
- Open Document plugin - For export as odt
- Pagelist, which I’m still learning for organizing tables.
- Move plugin - for moving location of pages without breaking links.
- Wrap plugin, for centering images and code blocks.
- Tag, for adding tag browsing between page.
- Footer, for clarifying info displayed at bottom of pages.
- Catmenu, adds a clean, simple tree menu for the page being viewed.
Are others running Dokuwiki in production? Would much appreciate suggestions for setting up a nice wiki flow. Right now there is probably a lot of improvements to be made in terms of indexing and otherwise organizing content. I find the plain text syntax takes a while to wrap the brain around since it isn’t markdown, but certainly fun to experiment with.
I have just let it grow organically. The front page is an index of various topics from personal things and particular games to household information. Then below that there might be just a page or an index to a bunch of pages often starting just as a list of links. I am often refactoring once a page has a bunch of sub headings of related topics but ultimately now needing multiple pages and replacing the original with the index to those pages. I don’t think I could have designed an index system from the start without the content because I wouldn’t have known what I was going to store.
Yep, figured it would be fun to hear from others doing similar. Got a number of posts, but just getting to a point where better indexing is important.
Watching the thread because I’ve recently been toying with the idea of using Dokuwiki as a place to store all my selfhosting notes.