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Recommendations for lightweight wiki servers?

I currently run a personal wiki for some notes, recipes, and stuff. It's set up using Wiki.js as the server. I'm the only regular user, and I feel like it's a bit of an overkill.

Does someone have any suggestions for a more lightweight wiki server? I tried DokuWiki and mostly like it. But the UI is very old and dare I say, ugly. I love the UI of Wiki.js btw.

My main criteria is that it should be lightweight. I don't need fancy editing features. Happy to work with raw html or markdown files.

I need some kind of permission management to hide some private wikis from the public, but otherwise I don't really care.

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  • Dokuwiki doesn't have to look old, it is only the default theme that does. Just install a nicer theme and the Prosemirror addon and it looks and functions like any other modern wiki.

  • Using dokuwiki, just cut the cheese for me.

    Its "old" because it uses php, but its quite solid and doesn't need a database, so all plus to me.

    There are cool and modern looking themes too.

  • It doesn't cover permissions unless you are willing to setup http auth on your webserver but I really enjoy mdbooks. I looks clean and still is just markdown.

  • For what's worth Wordpress can work as a wiki with a wiki theme like this one. Modern standards dictate that it's light... doesn't consume resources when not in use and it's easy to install and manage.

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