index - r/visualnovels wiki
index - r/visualnovels wiki
A community for discussing visual novels and the visual novel medium.
What realistic options do we have for making a copy of this wiki here on lemmy? Am I going to have to spin up a DokiWiki? Repurpose my WordPress blog to post some of these articles? I'm open to suggestions, too.
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Looks like Lemmy doesn't have any interest in adding a Wiki feature: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2959
aerkiaga mentions a workaround if you don't want to run a separate service:
as a workaround, I suggest that you make one or more locked text posts in your community with all the desired content and link them to each other, plus a link in the sidebar. This offers the same capabilities as a Reddit-style wiki (Markdown, editing, multiple pages), except for edit permissions (and maybe discoverability/UX?).
As for discoverability, you could have a pinned post which just contains links to all the wiki pages.
It depends on how many of those pages you think are worth preserving. It makes sense to have a dedicated wiki service if these pages are regularly being collaborated on and there are a lot of them. Mailing in changes/additions to you via private message would be hard to deal with then.
Only these pages seem worth preserving, and one of them is a collection of links to images of 4chan and other sites:
- https://r.nf/r/visualnovels/wiki/problems
- https://r.nf/r/visualnovels/wiki/buy
- https://r.nf/r/visualnovels/wiki/vnhooking
- https://r.nf/r/visualnovels/wiki/recommendations
The buying guide is particularly useful, the problems guide could stand to be expanded on greatly ( especially for non-Windows users), and the VN Hooking guide has a lot of text that relates mainly to older methods like ITHVNR, but most players should be using Textractor nowadays, so it can be trimmed down significantly.
A WINE guide might be a good addition. And a...less CAPS LOCK Learning Japanese guide. I'm interested in collaborating on these guides, and I could write about using Textractor and OCR programs like transformers_ocr through WINE (there's not much to it, really).
I already have a Wordpress set up on this box, which could be useful for relatively static posts.
Alternatively I could also grab something like DokuWiki to be a lightweight wiki for potentially several communities.
I'm open to ideas.
The only edge I think Wordpress has over Lemmy is you can include more media easily into a post, and you can customize it more.
I'm not familiar with all the different wiki software, but MediaWiki recently got a facelift and it looks a lot prettier now. DokuWIki is supposedly meant to be more lightweight, customizable, and easier to manage, though, so it makes sense to go with that.
I'd vote for wiki.
If I were trying to make a wiki for everyone's community, I would absolutely pick MediaWiki because then the extra stuff it offers would matter.