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A modern, extensible Node.js wiki with Markdown editing, powerful admin tools, multiple auth options, and support for popular SQL databases.
28.8k stars3.3k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
4 self-hosted Shelf alternatives
Shelf is an AI-powered knowledge management and agent-assist platform for customer support. It centralizes knowledge content, delivers real-time answers and guidance to agents across support channels, integrates with support tools, and provides search, RAG and analytics.
Alternatives to Shelf
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Documize is a self-hosted knowledge base and documentation platform for internal and external docs, offering spaces, labels, search, and enterprise-friendly authentication.
2.4k stars239 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Extensible Django wiki application with Markdown pages, versioning, permissions, and a pluggable architecture for integrating knowledge bases into Django sites.
1.9k stars588 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Lightweight PHP wiki engine offering WYSIWYG editing, per-page ACLs, revision control, themes, file uploads, and support for MariaDB/MySQL/SQLite.
55 stars10 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit Actively maintained
What replacing Shelf actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 4 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0, BSD-3-Clause. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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