I have a little side business of doing minor repairs on phones and tablets and such.
I was wanting to host a wiki on my network with ifixit guides for the common devices I work on just in case my internet access goes out.
I host a lot already but I’m not sure how to go about getting the data to upload to the wiki?
Has anyone else done a similar thing?
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Why not contributing the guides on ifixit and just keeping local copies? You can at least save a pdf copy?
How often will your internet go out? You could also cosnider an archiving solution for visited pages. Archivebox comes to mind.
Don’t Louis Rossmann launched a repair wiki a while back?
Anyway, mediawiki wikis have a special page that lets you dump the wiki’s contents for migration purposes, but I forgot whether it’s locked to admins only.
Edit: here’s a publicly accessible export page: https://repair.wiki/w/Special:Export
First ones that come to mind are:
https://www.bookstackapp.com/ - sets out your uploaded data like books. Can do books, chapters, pages, etc.
https://www.dokuwiki.org/DokuWiki - more standard wiki, also everything is stored in plain text so it’s easy to distribute and use source control on (no database backend)
https://tiddlywiki.com/ - full fledged wiki, bit different layout though since it’s all on one page. Clicking an internal link scrolls to that page so it’s pretty quick.
All are free and open source, almost certain they all have docker images too. I haven’t tried any of them but I’ve looked into them since I’ve been thinking about it
I use Doku at work and can attest that it is easy to use and works very well. Even for industrial applications.
I agree. Doku is incredibly easy and extensible. And it doesn’t need a database.
I recommend using Kiwix, https://kiwix.org/en/
They already have a monthly archive of ifixit available: https://library.kiwix.org/viewer#ifixit_en_all_2023-10/home/home
There are tons of other offline resources available for Kiwix as well https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng
