Wikis

Why Self-Host Your Wiki?

Atlassian Confluence charges $6-11 per user per month and stores your organization’s collective knowledge on Atlassian’s cloud infrastructure. Notion stores your workspace on their servers with no end-to-end encryption. When these services experience outages — or when the company decides to change pricing, as Atlassian has done repeatedly — your team loses access to critical documentation. Self-hosted wikis keep your knowledge base on your infrastructure, accessible regardless of any third party’s service status.

Wiki.js provides a modern, feature-rich wiki with a polished editor, full-text search, Git-based storage, and multiple authentication options. BookStack organizes documentation in a books/chapters/pages hierarchy that is intuitive for non-technical users — it is one of the most recommended self-hosted wikis for team documentation. Docmost offers a Notion-like collaborative documentation platform with real-time editing. AppFlowy provides another Notion alternative with a focus on data privacy and offline support. DokuWiki is a veteran wiki that stores pages as plain text files — no database required, making backups trivial.

TiddlyWiki takes a unique approach as a non-linear personal wiki stored in a single HTML file, ideal for personal knowledge management and note-taking. XWiki provides an enterprise wiki platform with structured data, application development capabilities, and extensive customization. Otter Wiki offers a Git-backed wiki with a minimal interface. TypeMill generates documentation sites from Markdown files. Wiki.go provides a lightweight, Go-based wiki for simple documentation needs. WikiDocs offers multi-language documentation support. Raneto renders Markdown files as a knowledge base with no database dependency — drop Markdown files in a folder and you have a searchable documentation site.