Hi all,

I find myself sharing more and more stuff with the family at home so I'm considering running an on-premise wiki of some kind to manage it.

At work I use Confluence, which I really like because:
- I can past pictures into documents
- Documents can be edited by more than one person simultaneously.
- $10 for the basic 10-license version seems like an OK price (even if I'd prefer free)
- I also like draw.io/Gliffy integration but I probably wouldn't pay the extra for that.

I really like how fast and painlessly I can setup Confluence on Slackware (a couple of minutes), so I'm considering handing over the $10 to get a license.

Before I do that are there any other collaboration tools I should be considering that will do the same thing?

Thanks!

There are a few FOSS wiki engines that support massive collaboration, are feature rich (in some instances easily programmable to tune or add features) and are (of course) free. While the price is very reasonable for that tool, you may be doing yourself a disservice to ignore the others.

Is there a time constraint, or have you time to experiment with two or three?

You might look for articles like this one https://www.linuxlinks.com/wiki/ for clues.

I used TikiWiki in a team environment a few years ago. It worked, but at that time found it unfriendly for non coders.

I was hoping to avoid too much experimentation. I think the key differentiator for me, is if a wiki supports image pasting, and also runs on-prem. That combo seems to exclude many of the free/free-to-use ones.

MediaWiki seems to be the most popular Foss wiki engine. And seeing as it runs Wikipedia I'd imagine it supports pictures

I downloaded several different wiki programs, however I started with pmwiki and since it was so extremely easy to set up, I didn't even try the rest. I'm sure there are plenty that offer more ease of use but at least there is no database overhead.

Supporting pictures, and having hassle-free image pasting that will work from any browser are not quite the same thing!

If a wiki-style thing is not really what you're looking for, you can check out Nextcloud as well. It is more of a Google Apps replacement and you can install it on-premises. Since the latest release, Nextcloud offers online .docx document editing as well.

https://nextcloud.com/

Even as a N00b I have installed it multiple times. If the instructions on the website are not exactly fit for your needs you can Google for alternative installation instructions and there is a lot of information available.

I use Nextcloud on a daily basis and found it easy to use and very stable. Of course this does not exempt you from making BACKUPS