# Is anyone working on a Discourse Wiki?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-anyone-working-on-a-discourse-wiki/20349>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 23, 2014, 6:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-anyone-working-on-a-discourse-wiki/20349 "2014-09-23T06:21:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![peternlewis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/peternlewis/32/108888_2.png) [@peternlewis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/peternlewis)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 5:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-anyone-working-on-a-discourse-wiki/20349/8 "2014-10-14T05:54:34Z")

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Bloody Discourse has spoiled me! I’m still looking around for a wiki to replace Mediawiki, and not making much progress. The things that would be great about a Discourse wiki would be primarily the editor - nice, clean, easy to use Markdown, easy to upload. Also, the user system and configuration system are all pretty nice, and the modern clean look as well.

The main things I would need in a Discourse styled wiki would be:

- Automatic wiki-mode setting of new pages/topics.
- Default hiding of replies (just hiding them by default would be sufficient I think).
- Automatic page creation.
- Easy page linking.
- Sensible URLs
- Automatic table of contents.

I’m sure there are other things that would be nice, like being able to find broken links and orphaned pages and the like, but I could probably live with just the above list.

I’ve got no idea if those sort of requirements could be done as a plugin as @sam suggests. Some of it could potentially be added to Discourse proper (for example, automatic table of contents would probably be a feature that could be added to Discourse as an option, as could Automatic wiki-mode and default hiding of replies, they would all be relatively easy to do and disabled by default options).

So really, the big issue is the page creation/linking/wiki-style URLs. If there was a way of doing that, then it would probably be 80-90% there.

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