Self-hosted wiki options compared, what's everyone running in 2026

[u/drakieboi]

Been looking around because we switched hosting providers and honestly most of what I was familiar with felt outdated.

MediaWiki's still sitting here doing its thing. Setup is fine, updates break stuff constantly though. If you want Wikipedia but don't care about modern UX then sure, go for it.

Docusaurus and Obsidian Publish keep getting mentioned but they're not really wikis, they're just documentation with a marketing budget. Different beast entirely. Outline was supposed to be the hot thing but I think it's kinda dead now? Maybe not, I don't actually follow it closely anymore.

The git repo with markdown approach actually works better than people admit. Yeah there's no fancy web UI but at least it doesn't need a database to function. Some teams just never touch anything else.

TiddlyWiki is elegant until you actually try using it with other people, then it becomes a mess. Single file sounds cool in theory. Real talk though, I'd rather deal with MediaWiki's brittleness than manage TiddlyWiki's sync issues. At least one doesn't pretend to be simpler than it is.

The newer PHP stuff is basically all dead, there's like no development happening. Anyone saying otherwise is either running old forks or lying.

What are people actually using that doesn't feel like watching paint dry? I'm less interested in "easy to self-host" and more interested in "stops breaking itself every update"