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Ask HN: Open-source knowledge base or wiki software?

I'm looking for some software (preferably open-source) that I can use for a personal wiki/knowledgebase.

On the desktop application front, Microsoft OneNote and Evernote seem to be the best options - however, OneNote's online support isn't great, and Evernote is unreliable and flakey, and I've had it lose data under me.

On the hosted webapps,Confluence is the most complete/polished software, however, it's quite heavy on the browser, needs a chunky server with lots of RAM to run, and you need to pay a yearly subscription (which I currently do).

I've tried MediaWiki, but found the editing UI unintuitive and unpolished for the use case of a personal wiki.

A lot of the existing open-source projects seem to be either abandoned, or not very active - and the editing experience is often poor.

Are there any good open-source pieces of software suitable for a personal wiki/knowledgebase that you guys could recommend?

10 points victorhooi 12 years ago 10 comments

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