EDIT: Seems that wikibooks/wikivoyage will work, thanks for the awesome suggestions!
So I want to create a page in Wikipedia but the more I write it out the more I realize that it is probably a little outside the scope of Wikipedia because it leans a little towards a guide and a little less towards an encyclopaedia article.
I guess my question is does anyone know of a good place to have something like that? It needs to be free and open to the public and open for anyone to edit and foss.
I know that there is the option of using wiki hostings to host a specific wiki but I think that that’s an overkill because it can be summed up in a single article.
So does anyone know of a place which is similar to Wikipedia but a little more loose in its guidelines as to what content can be uploaded? Specifically guides.
For howto guides there is wikihow, though its license is noncommercial only iirc.
Wikibooks might also be suitable, as someone said. The other editors there are less insane about rule enforcement than wikipedia’s, anyway.
If you can say what your topic is, that could help.
Local hiking guides with notes and warnings and explanations about different weather conditions, etc.
Wikibooks might be ok for that.
There are wikis specifically for travel guides too, e.g. Wikivoyage, Wikitravel.
Yeah! I saw it now, seems like a good fit!
There are lots of wikis for specific domains, what are you looking to write a guide for?
Local hiking guides with notes and warnings and explanations about different weather conditions, etc.
https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page looks like what you want.
You could start your own blog
I want something that I don’t need to personally manage and is open for the public.
maybe Wikibooks? Not very familiar with what they accept or not.
Awesome, I didn’t know Wikipedia has so many different wiki types. I’ll check wiki books and others out. Thank you!
Codeberg?
Isn’t it for code?
It is, yeah, but you can also use it to host a static webpage: https://codeberg.page/
Personally, I use it together with mdBook, so I write my texts in Markdown and then get a webpage with search and such. There’s lots of “static site generators” out there which do something similar.It’s a little tech-y for what you’re hoping to do, but you could make use of the code tooling for collaboration. People could open issues, if they just want to make a suggestion, or they could create a pull request with a concrete change.
It says
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