# Using Discourse as an enterprise wiki library

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-an-enterprise-wiki-library/369166
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [June 6, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-an-enterprise-wiki-library/369166 "2025-06-06T19:58:02Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-an-enterprise-wiki-library/369166/4 "2025-06-08T13:11:12Z")

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> [@Tris20](#):
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> The [Discourse Docs Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376) didn’t quite meeting our needs in 2019 - However the current version does

> [@Tris20](#):
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> Then, more than 12 months were spent failing to agree on how their tree hierarchy should be organized. The answer of course, is that data is complex and the tree structure [really isn’t the best choice for the data we were working with](https://gwern.net/doc/philosophy/ontology/2005-04-shirky-ontologyisoverratedcategorieslinksandtags.html).

> [@Tris20](#):
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> I believe it is now [Discourse Doc Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-doc-categories/322376), which aligns far more with what we had envisioned and needed at the time.

Just dropping a brief note to comment on a couple things here:

First yes, that’s the newer docs plugin which we intend to replace the old. We are using it here on meta for our documentation where it’s serving our purposes much better. It allows you to define the sections and pages that show in the sidebar navigation in the order that you want.

It’s still #experimental in the sense that it hasn’t quite reached the maturity we think it needs to be widely supported – the main thing that’s needed is a more user friendly way to manage the indices that back the navigation in the sidebar.

Supporting deeper nesting is something that I expect we’ll do at some point as well.

We aren’t investing too heavily in the plugin at this very moment, but it is the foundation on which I expect we’ll be building more of these features when they become a priority and/or in collaboration with partners.

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