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LeafWiki

Lightweight self-hosted wiki with Markdown stored on disk

Wikis & Documentation ★ 997 stars Easy setup MIT

LeafWiki is a lightweight self-hosted wiki for long-lived documentation that stores Markdown pages on disk in a tree structure. It ships as a single Go binary with SQLite and supports tables, task lists, footnotes, and Mermaid diagrams.

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Key features

  • Single Go binary deployment
  • Markdown pages stored on disk
  • Tree-based page organization
  • Mermaid diagram support

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Written in Go

LeafWiki replaces

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