The author wrote critiques of mediawiki, tiddly, but what about Doku? It's mentioned in the article but I was wondering what's bad about doku since the setup process isn't too bad imo.
It's been many years, so my memory is a bit rusty. I think I recall it being fiddly to upload images for a page and possibly the themes were complex to modify (?) (I didn't like the default and wanted to make something simpler).
I can't be certain, I have not tried Doku in years. It looks like a lot of places use it now and its seeing success.
There are a decent bit of themes too, I havent tried creating my own though.
I think it is kind of a shame really, Dokuwiki is a beautiful bit of software in my opinion.
How is that a complaint? PHP is thoroughly battle tested and works on any cheap shared hosting. It's the perfect choice.
I love the dokuwiki no-db filesystem storage approach, however.