Wiki.js
Every editor, every auth provider, every storage backend.
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sovereigntyWiki.js is the flexible one: Markdown, WYSIWYG, HTML and AsciiDoc editors, more than fifty authentication providers, and content that can sync to Git so your wiki has real version history in a repository you control. AGPL-3.0, around 29k stars. That Git sync is the feature worth noticing — it makes documentation reviewable in pull requests, which is how engineering teams already work. The trade is configuration: it does a great deal, and it asks you to decide about most of it.
OPEN SOURCEAGPL-3.0SELF-HOSTLOCAL-FIRST
LicenseAGPL-3.0
PricingFree and open source. You supply the server and database.
Open sourceYes
Self-hostableYes
Local-first dataYes
What it does well
- +Git storage backend gives real version control over documentation
- +Over fifty auth providers — SSO into almost anything
- +Multiple editors, so writers are not forced into one style
- +Mature, with years of production use
Where it falls short
- −More configuration than BookStack before it feels finished
- −Node and a database to operate
- −Version 3 has been a long time coming
- −Search is adequate rather than excellent
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