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Ask HN: Preferred Internal Wiki Platform?

by rocky_raccoon on 9/30/21, 6:38 PM with 4 comments

As a startup, we found that Google Drive was sufficient for maintaining things like policies and procedures. Then, we hired people. I'm leaning toward using an internal wiki as a way to organize divisions, departments, policies, procedures, etc. and am interested to hear where you all have had successes or failures.

What are your favorite platforms that accomplish this goal, whether paid or OSS?

Also, any pro tips on how to effectively organize and manage an internal wiki are appreciated.

Or is there a better solution for organizing a company's internal knowledge and resources than a wiki?

  • by sirodoht on 9/30/21, 6:55 PM

    I'm also interested in people's suggestions. I think the most popular choice is Confluence, which I don't like at all. The second most popular choice is probably Notion, which unfortunately is a bit too slow to consider great.

    Two options I want to try are:

    * Documize https://github.com/documize/community

    * Nuclino https://www.nuclino.com/

  • by mindcrime on 9/30/21, 7:16 PM

    My current choice is MediaWiki.

  • by josephcsible on 9/30/21, 7:34 PM

    I like MediaWiki. It's simple to deploy, everyone already knows how to use it since Wikipedia runs it, and it's 100% FOSS.

  • by satya71 on 9/30/21, 7:00 PM

    We’re using Notion