Tiny Core Linux
Off-Topic => Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge => Topic started by: mocore on June 09, 2026, 02:34:24 AM
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just wandering
what wikis (or similar software) do *you* use? ( read / contribute content or *even* host / hack )
mostly because i just got round to
"Building a student wiki at MFF Charles University" @ https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/KLAKHV-matfyz-wiki/
but also because ... *gestures at various related (imho) things*
- in the past *our* tiny core wiki had became unmaintained / inaccessible , only offsite backups was available
( its back now ( many thanks to the current/future maintainers ) but the traumatic memories persist ;) )
- on looking up devuan's wiki https://wiki.devuan.org/?n=Main.Wiki , and reading about the "Wiki audit" sounds eerily familiar
- nixos deleted their old wiki :'( https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Wiki:History
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_is_there_a_new_wiki?_What_is_with_nixos.wiki
- this topic "tiny core docuwiki offline? aka local documentation for offline use 2.0" @ https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,22566.msg141377.html#msg141377
was my attempt to bring some concepts from the core-pkg philosophy ( read plain-text and script fun :D ) to the wiki
.. also related ( this html / quine / wiki https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=25278.msg161552#msg161552 requires javascript )
- also some place there is some other topic/post with a reference to the historically most popular/copied manual/documentation
perhaps someone reading lived though this part of digital history , or even a copy of the manual's in question ... and can clarify my vague perhaps wrong recollection
as well as the above it appears
many of the "big" distro's who have primarily adopted systemd
have updated their wiki's and apparently
at best deprecated and
at worst purged
historic content relating to other init systems
/rant
so to re-iterate , my question is
what wikis (or similar software) do *you* use? ( read / contribute content or *even* host / hack )
and ftr emphasis on "or similar software" ( i imagine ;) one can get far with touch , mkdir and *some kind of pager* and a few functions ! )
and *implied minimal dependencies*
thanks! for reading :D
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wrt> X deleted their old wiki
https://critter.blog/2020/08/10/wiki-bankruptcy/
>What if, once a year, everything in your company’s wiki was deleted? Call it Wiki Bankruptcy.
i missed that memo =s
and apparently according to
"Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian" https://lwn.net/Articles/1032604/
if you dont delete your wiki =0
the suits will call SWOT (annalists) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis) =S
... *to do it for you*
thankfully it appears not all analysis is out sourced *yet!*
Using AI for problem solving also prevents people from fully understanding a solution or how things work.
That may be a problem for the whole of society, he said, not just ArchWiki.
..while Gentoo consider the lilies amongst other things
"Consider making a public wiki database dump" @ https://bugs.gentoo.org/823860
minisleep is (No daemon, no database)
strictly roots
https://halestrom.net/darksleep/software/minisleep/
Statically compiles pages: fast & resilient to failure
All scripts can be disabled or fail and the site will still stay online. You can repair problems in your own time.
Likely faster page delivery than any traditional dynamic wiki software (Mediawiki, Doku, etc).
No database: pages stored as files and folders
Dead simple to administrate and backup.
Very easy to migrate page content to and from other wikis and systems, so you don't feel trapped.
...*unless* you *really* loathe shell script ???
Minisleep *really* is
>a tiny wiki engine done right.
ideal for ~/ on core
all though (imho) similar might be possible simpler
..or more accurately with different *more convenient* abstractions
/rant