This is not strictly self-hosted per se, but I am looking for your guidance.

I am standing up a wiki. I want it to use available FOSS wiki frameworks, all our self-hosted loving things.

However: the probably of this becoming a moderately trafficked page are high. So I also need to consider scale (cloudflare, captcha, auth, do I use Vercel? etc.), light-weightness (this is a Wiki but not too massive), and all that jazz. This is also someone who won’t like alt-wikis and is a very layman, mainstream audience. So “wikipedia but SEO friendly/article style” is also a plus. It will be less deeply linked than Wikipedia across pages, but is still a repository for info that will be revisited for its different components for a long time.

People with experience spinning up or hosting trafficked wiki pages: what do I do?

Thanks gang.

  • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    This is not AI text and you’re the one who’s departed from the OP’s request:

    I am standing up a wiki

    The definition of a wiki is unambiguous:

    A wiki (/ˈwɪki/ ⓘ WIK-ee) is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser.

    The entire context of OP’s post is web, ie the Internet. We are not taking about physical book libraries. We aren’t discussing microfiche. The only relevant database type germane to OP is a relational database, as you readily noted:

    If you do additional web application mumbo jumbo, you might need a relational database

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      I’m sorry. For some reason we’re completely talking past each other… Your harddisk/ssd/usb-stick is a document based database afaik. You store data in form of files/documents on your HDD. It’s a bit like a library, yes. Those documents are organzed a certain way. In folders… maybe on shelves or whatever the digital equivalent is…
      The important parts of a wiki (the articles with the interesting information in them) are organized exactly the same way. That’s why DokuWiki manages to pull it off without a relational database. It really doesn’t matter for something like an encyclopedia or knowledge database. Can be articles in a books sitting on shelves in some building. Or digital files on a server, organized by a very similar hierarchy / topics. …And because that’s a subset of what a relational database can do, you can use them as well! (Edit: Not sure if my terminology is 100% correct… we also have the word: hierarchical databases? could also be what I mean.)

      …Sorry for the AI confusion on my side…