# redimp/otterwiki

A minimalistic wiki powered by python, markdown and git.

Repository: https://github.com/redimp/otterwiki
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/otterwiki
Homepage: https://otterwiki.com
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: markdown, wiki, git
Last push: 2026-08-26T11:22:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 96, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2982, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 28, "gap_med": 10.5, "n_releases_24m": 53}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1519, forks 124 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:57.603297+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, auth, search-engine, documentation, markdown, self-hosted, version-control
- domain: documentation, self-hosted, web-development, developer-tools, cms
- platform: self-hosted, python, cross-platform
- tags: wiki, git-backed, flask, markdown-editor, collaborative-editing, page-history, docker-compose, mermaid-diagrams, docker, web-server, linux

## Member repositories
- redimp/otterwiki (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.603297+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:58.371665+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/redimp/otterwiki (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.603297+00:00, sha a5d165625bba)
  - homepage: https://otterwiki.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:35:22.720322+00:00, sha f0f2fa039cc3)
  - site_page: https://otterwiki.com/Installation (fetched 2026-08-29T11:35:22.727181+00:00, sha f746cc10d27d)
  - site_page: https://otterwiki.com/-/about (fetched 2026-08-29T11:35:22.731101+00:00, sha aeabae8775ee)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/otterwiki/json (fetched 2026-08-29T11:35:22.732721+00:00, sha 5d76e78619bf)
  - site_page: https://otterwiki.com/-/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T11:35:22.723100+00:00, sha 6ddbe1dfe3db)
  - site_page: https://otterwiki.com/-/help (fetched 2026-08-29T11:35:22.725124+00:00, sha 8470a18ebc20)
  - site_page: https://otterwiki.com/FAQ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:35:22.729250+00:00, sha 074e072c5eba)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.