Self-Hosted Wikis and Knowledge Bases

Team documentation scattered across chats and drives is hard to find. A self-hosted wiki brings it into one searchable place with page history and permissions, stored on your own server.

How to choose

  • The editor: WYSIWYG, Markdown or wiki markup — can non-technical colleagues use it?
  • Permission granularity, single sign-on (LDAP / OIDC) and page revision history
  • How content is organised (shelves and chapters, tree, tags) and how good full-text search is

Recommended software

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Organize and store information. Stores documentation in a book like fashion.

Extensible wiki for your team.

Collaborative wiki and documentation software (alternative to Confluence, Notion).

Easy to use, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine with a simple syntax allowing reading the data outside the wiki. All data is stored in plain text files, therefore no database is required.

Wiki software package that powers Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects, serving hundreds of millions of users each month.

A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://logseq.io/p/NX4mc_ggEV

Graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.

Reusable non-linear personal web notebook.

There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.

Wiki program that stores pages and uploaded files in a git repository, which can then be modified using the VCS command line tools or the wiki's web interface.

Second generation wiki that allows the user to extend its functionalities with a powerful extension-based architecture.

Simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.

Raneto is an open source Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files to power your Knowledgebase.

Web-based knowledge base solution. A simple web app, it runs on pretty much any web server or hosting provider with PHP and MySQL.

A modern, feature-rich, databaseless flat-file wiki platform built with Go.

Modern, lightweight and powerful wiki app using Git and Markdown.

Modern Docs + Wiki software with built-in workflow, single binary executable, just bring MySQL/Percona.

LeafWiki - Self-hosted wiki. Single Go binary, SQLite, Markdown on disk. No external database required.

A databaseless markdown flat-file wiki engine.

WackoWiki is a light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine.

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

Simple, easy to use wiki software using markdown.

Host and create your own mindmaps. Share your mindmap sessions with your team and collaborate live on mindmaps.

Wiki system with complex functionality for simple integration and a superb interface. Store your knowledge with style: Use django models.

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