redimp/otterwiki

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

An Otter Wiki is a self-hosted, minimalistic wiki application for collaborative content management, written in Python with Flask. Content is written in Markdown and stored in a git repository, providing full version history, page attachments, user authentication, and an optional git HTTP server for cloning and pushing wiki content.

Use cases

• self-host a team knowledge base with markdown
• run a lightweight wiki on a raspberry pi or small server
• version-control documentation with full page history and diffs
• collaboratively edit markdown pages with attachments and images
• clone and push wiki content via git
• host an internal wiki in an air-gapped environment

When to choose

• you want a lightweight, minimal wiki with low resource usage (~100MiB RAM)
• you prefer markdown editing with tables, footnotes, mermaid diagrams, and formulas
• you want git-backed version history with the ability to revert changes
• you need a simple docker-compose deployment behind nginx, apache, or caddy

When to avoid

• you need a wiki mountable under a subfolder path of an existing domain
• you need to free disk space by deleting pages, since the git backend never forgets
• you require heavy enterprise features like granular ACLs or SSO integrations beyond proxy-header auth
• you want a WYSIWYG editor rather than markdown source editing

Facets

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web-framework auth search-engine documentation markdown self-hosted version-control documentation self-hosted web-development developer-tools cms self-hosted python cross-platform wiki git-backed flask markdown-editor collaborative-editing page-history docker-compose mermaid-diagrams docker web-server linux

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