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3 self-hosted Wikipedia alternatives

Collaboratively edited, free online encyclopedia maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. Hosts multilingual reference articles across topics, editable by volunteers, and accessible via web and public APIs for reading, searching, and programmatic use.

Alternatives to Wikipedia

Oddmuse is a single-file Perl wiki engine that stores pages on the filesystem, offers page versioning, themes and extensions, and runs under CGI or Mojolicious.

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Minimal, easy-to-deploy PHP wiki with version history, diffs, search, plugins, and theming—designed to be installed and configured in minutes.

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PmWiki is a PHP-based wiki CMS for collaboratively building and maintaining websites with simple markup, skins, extensions, file uploads, and granular access control.

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What replacing Wikipedia 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. Licences in this list: GPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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