Try-out wiki in discourse for second renaissance forum

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See this google doc for background and especially tab "Discourse experiment": https://docs.google.com/document/d/1chbeGmlRHf00OC3ryFOUQ1PLynJ5YxjyNS5P0kWDGLA/edit?tab=t.4naq7ttmobai

Tasks

• Can have wiki posts ✅2025-07-08 can have wiki posts that are editable by anyone https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-and-creating-wiki-posts/30801. They support revision history and more.
• Have a category where every topic in a category is auto-wiki – so that area is a wiki area and nowhere is ... ✅ Can have a category that is auto-wiki’d. Howto · Discussion
  
• Have a wiki only area of the discourse/forum – So that it is clear where the wiki is and it does not get confused with rest of site Created wiki category: forum.secondrenaissance.net/c/wiki/21 🚩Note: wiki posts need shorter titles than 15 chars, but title length is a global setting
• Unique titles in the wiki – ✅ via restricting duplicate titles …
  
• Disable replies on wiki topics / category – See configuration and restricted replies plugin
• Wiki links with [[ … ]] – NB: not sure how essential this given you can just ctrl+k to search for topics to link (though may be difficult to see what is a wiki topic) See wikilinks plugin · GitHub repo (unmaintained since 2023)
• Red links – ****

To merge in with above

• Version History/Revisions: A way to track changes to wiki posts, view past versions, and potentially revert to previous states.
• Permissions for Editing: Control over who can edit wiki posts (e.g., all users, specific groups, or trusted users).
• Table of Contents (TOC) Generation: For longer wiki pages, the ability to automatically generate a table of contents from headings.
• Linking Between Wiki Posts: Easy ways to cross-reference and link different wiki topics within Discourse.
• Search Functionality: How well wiki content is indexed and searchable within Discourse.
• Readability/Formatting: How the wiki content is displayed and if it supports common wiki formatting (e.g., headings, lists, bold/italics, code blocks, images).
• Notifications for Changes: Users can be notified when a wiki post they are following or have contributed to is updated.
• Topic Pinning/Categorization: The ability to pin wiki topics to the top of a category or organize them effectively.
• Public vs. Private Wiki Content: If there's a need for some wiki information to be accessible to all and other parts to be restricted.