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[Question] Public-facing Wiki (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by rezz@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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This is not strictly self-hosted per se, but I am looking for your guidance.

I am standing up a wiki. I want it to use available FOSS wiki frameworks, all our self-hosted loving things.

However: the probably of this becoming a moderately trafficked page are high. So I also need to consider scale (cloudflare, captcha, auth, do I use Vercel? etc.), light-weightness (this is a Wiki but not too massive), and all that jazz. This is also someone who won't like alt-wikis and is a very layman, mainstream audience. So "wikipedia but SEO friendly/article style" is also a plus. It will be less deeply linked than Wikipedia across pages, but is still a repository for info that will be revisited for its different components for a long time.

People with experience spinning up or hosting trafficked wiki pages: what do I do?

Thanks gang.

EDIT: So many great replies here to triage. Thanks everyone. I'll keep you posted!

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm sorry. For some reason we're completely talking past each other... Your harddisk/ssd/usb-stick is a document based database afaik. You store data in form of files/documents on your HDD. It's a bit like a library, yes. Those documents are organzed a certain way. In folders... maybe on shelves or whatever the digital equivalent is...
The important parts of a wiki (the articles with the interesting information in them) are organized exactly the same way. That's why DokuWiki manages to pull it off without a relational database. It really doesn't matter for something like an encyclopedia or knowledge database. Can be articles in a books sitting on shelves in some building. Or digital files on a server, organized by a very similar hierarchy / topics. ...And because that's a subset of what a relational database can do, you can use them as well! (Edit: Not sure if my terminology is 100% correct... we also have the word: hierarchical databases? could also be what I mean.)

...Sorry for the AI confusion on my side...