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Hello everyone,

As you all know, Lemmy does not support wikis at the moment. I have seen other communities using solutions such as rentry.co (example: https://rentry.co/manjaro-controversies) to host their wiki content, do you have any suggestion on another solution we could use?

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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A community like this will get people coming for answers to basic questions like "How do credit cards work" and "should I get a loan or a lease on my car". Having a wiki provides a set place we can point to that has consistent answers to those basic questions, so they're not answered differently every time they're asked.

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

This bit is absolutely solved by Lemmy - just pin an FAQ post, make it read only and note it in the sidebar.

The editable point has been made (workaround: make a new post periodically), but here are some other considerations:

  • organization - at a certain point, a massive post is hard to navigate; a wiki should show splitting it into sub-pages (could link to other lemmy threads, but that kinda sucks to maintain)
  • searchable - once it's in multiple pages, I'd want to skip the index and search for something directly
  • linkable - I can link a lemmy post, but that link can bit rot if the pinned link changes
  • edit history - sometimes advice changes, if you use git, you can explain why in the commit message without cluttering up the actual text; likewise, if we find new advice to be bad, we can easily undo it later since the old versions are still there (esp. if it's something complex like a flowchart)
  • can be shared by other communities, like maybe collaborate with an investing community, or a community for financial advisors
  • discussion - if advice is contentious, it can be discussed away from the main community, so meta posts don't clutter regular discussion (could solve with a separate meta community)

I think a separate wiki has a ton of value.

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