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I don't understand why Dokuwiki isn't more popular. It is super easy to use, there are a good bit of themes and plugins that can be installed through the GUI, it loads pictures fine (and has a little picture tracker interface where you can browse uploaded photos), you can use the farmer plugin to multiple seperate wikis on the same website and it doesn't require a database (all the pages just sit in a folder you can copy/backup anyway you like) so it is stupid simple to backup.

I think it is kind of a shame really, Dokuwiki is a beautiful bit of software in my opinion.



Yep, compared to MediaWiki(last time I set it up was like ~7 years ago) it was such a hassle to setup. I think my main complaint about Doku is that it's built on PHP. I haven't tried to hardcore customize things other than installing plugins and templates though so I can't say how easy it is to extend.


> I think my main complaint about Doku is that it's built on PHP.

How is that a complaint? PHP is thoroughly battle tested and works on any cheap shared hosting. It's the perfect choice.


personally I try to avoid all dependencies (except a mere webserver, naturally) when it comes to reading.

I love the dokuwiki no-db filesystem storage approach, however.




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