We are considering our options regarding maintainability of https://wiki.cyberia.club. Some have suggested switching to a static site generator with markdown pages stored on our git server. Some benefits to this approach are:

• (Re)uses an established auth mechanism instead of juggling several.
• More people know Markdown than some random wiki software's markup language.

Some considerations people have raised include:

• Maintain as frictionless an editing flow as possible
  • edit button links to forgejo's edit interface for that page
  • any authenticated user should be allowed to edit
• SSG and contents live in separate repos

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This repo houses my (reese's) attempt to build this with Zola. I'm not sure it's the right tool for a wiki but if we find something better we can always adapt these files.

Some stumbling blocks I've found:

• pages require a frontmatter block even if it's empty
  • does forgejo have "add file" templates?
• not sure it supports transclusions (page within a page)
• internal links need wiki/ prefix
  • could write a link resolver macro?
• limited set of templates have restrictive set of variables available