Switching Things over to Ikiwiki

by bradley_taunton 12/30/2023, 1:05:00 PM with 5 comments
  • by reidracon 12/31/2023, 2:40:54 PM

    Ikiwiki is such a neat project that I'd like to use it, but I don't really have the need of a wiki. I mean an actual wiki where multiple people collaborate.

    Because it is only me editing content, I use markdown with Hugo + rsync, that is close enough.

    You can get Ikiwiki hosting here: https://www.branchable.com/

  • by BLKNSLVRon 12/31/2023, 7:36:39 AM

    I've been procrastinating setting up my own blog for years because I want it to be as transferable as possible. I don't want it tied down to a specific platform; I want it to be easy to save and restore elsewhere.

    I'm currently setting up a tiddlywiki instance from which static pages can be exported.

    Tiddlywiki's portability is what sold me.

  • by jaimehrubikson 12/31/2023, 12:03:40 PM

    I think the only thing weird is the buttons on the top like "edit" "recent changes" etc. Apart from that I would even notice it's a wiki and not a classic blog.

  • by wakeupcallon 12/31/2023, 11:43:08 AM

    I used to have comments and a xapian index/engine on my website, something I wish every website would have. To share my experience, I eventually removed both.

    The xapian index was both faster, more accurate and up to date than any public search engine. Nobody besides myself ever used it, often returning from a google site: search instead.

    Things change if you have the wiki as a personal information repository and use search yourself, as the OP points out. I still have that, but I keep this private as I also index other private stuff and can't make the two separate.

    And because I have a local mirror of the archive anyway, I'm often faster grepping than using search (it's just not big enough).

    I also had fully open/anonymous comments. As you might expect, this gets spam almost instantly nowadays. I switched those behind a login wall, but I realized after a few years that I wouldn't create an account on a random website myself just to post a comment. For anything more involved than a quick comment I just dropped an email to the author[1].

    Right now I fear that under GDPR those public comments would just be a liability.

    [1] if the author is kind enough to do so instead of dropping a twitter handle...

  • by jraphon 12/31/2023, 8:46:14 AM

    This has a little Debian Wiki feel :-)