Wiki About
What its all about
For over a decade I’ve been looking for a modern replacement for what I always felt like was the perfect wiki: OpenWiki by Laurens Pit.
Finally, in the vacuum of a decent solution (and no, I do not consider mediawiki a good platform), I decided to create my own, first in ASP.net then more recently in ASP.NET Core sitting on top of SQL Server.
The principals were clear:
- You should be able to create, edit, and link pages just by typing their names and have the engine create the linked pages if they don’t exist.
- This enables a kind of lazy “fill-it-in-later” documentation format that I am most comfortable with and which I’ve seen readily utilized on various teams that I’ve managed.
- Pages should be searchable.
- Table of contents and glossaries should be built in and completely built for you.
- Pages should be taggable to create logical groups.
- Files should be attached to pages.
- All content should be versioned, and changes easily reverted.
- You should be able to identify who made a change.
Shoutout
Thanks Laurens for all the good years, you were a major motivator!
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