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I use Dokuwiki for my small fantasy wiki project. I use many plugins to achieve the functionality and style that I want, but it works well for my needs. None of the others I looked at could do quite everything I wanted.
I'm currently migrating my worldbuilding and conlanging project to Dokuwiki. Right now I have an Obsidian vault used for brainstorming and drafting and a public Mediawiki for stuff I feel is worth showing off. Like Obsidian, DW stores everything as plaintext (it's not markdown but it's readable and the tables are better IMO). Like Mediawiki, DW keeps a version history so I can keep track of how my ideas evolve over time, which is crucial for conlang documentation. I keep tons of example texts that may reflect earlier phases of the grammar and vocab that I may need to reference. Unlike both Obsidian and MW, Dokuwiki has access control, so I can keep a private namespace for drafts and a public namespace for stuff I think is polished enough to show.
I'm not sure DW meet's OP's requirements for "out of the box" functionality though. I think it's intended to be rather bare bones but be very easy to extend with plugins. The plugin browser is built in, so customization is a breeze. Plugins can be individually installed, enabled, disabled, and updated through the admin GUI.
If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd love to take a gander at what you're cooking up!
The DW instance isn't public (yet) but here's a link to the currently public mediawiki instance.
https://constructed.world/
I never invested the time to make the content very discoverable, so you'll have to make copious use of the random page and what links here features if you want to see what I've written.
Enjoy my stress-induced maladaptive daydreams.
Thanks for sharing! I don't have a ton of experience with MediaWiki and cannot figure out how to go to a random page lol
It's behind the hamburger menu (3 horizontal lines on the top left of the page), at least with the latest default skin. You can also check out a list of all pages by searching
Special:AllPages, and a list of all categories withspecial:categoriesThe categories will in turn take you to lists of pages tagged with that category. It's great for going on wiki walks.