I currently host a couple small wikis for worldbuilding information, but the hosting provider for that is going down in a few months, so I’m looking for ways to self host what I got.
I’ve never self hosted with Mediawiki before so this is brand new to me, I’ve already spent a couple hours messing around with Docker but haven’t gotten too far into that. OS is Manjaro/Endeavour Linux between two systems.
Not necessarily looking to host it online immediately to start with, though in the future I’d like to do so when I can get the proper hardware preparations for it, but for now I just want to host it locally to get it set up.
I’m definitely not a “typical” case, just saying what I did:
A friend of mine used discord for his worldbuilding project and at some point when I asked him sth and he emailed me a bunch of images and texts (I don’t use discord anymore) I was like “yeah no this is enough I’m setting up a mediawiki for you”
I spent about a week figuring shit out with NixOS containers, keycloak and some mediawiki thingies (gosh the openid connect plugin is cursed), and now he’s happily writing away at his wiki (when he feels like it lol).
I’m not saying to do it like me, it’s probably the most monumentally worst way to do it, but it works well enough.