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wiki vs Skill_Seekers
wiki has 28,937 GitHub stars, 3,314 forks, 182 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Skill_Seekers has 14,993 stars, 1,527 forks, 59 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. wiki leads on adoption by 93% (28,937 vs 14,993 stars). wiki is written in Vue under AGPL-3.0; Skill_Seekers is written in Python under MIT. wiki has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, Skill_Seekers 10%. wiki was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (documentation), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| wiki | Skill_Seekers | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 29K | ★ 15K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Vue | Python |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-16 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.3K | ⑂ 1.5K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick wiki if
- You weight community size — 29K stars and counting
- You want the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Vue
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Skill_Seekers if
- You want the Skill_Seekers feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and Skill_Seekers fits your workflow better
About wiki
Wiki.js is a modern, lightweight wiki application built on NodeJS and distributed as open source under the AGPL 3.0 licence, aimed at teams and organisations that want to publish and maintain their own documentation and knowledge base rather than renting a hosted one.
About Skill_Seekers
Skill Seekers is a Python 3.10+ command line tool and MCP server that turns 18 source types — documentation sites, GitHub repositories, PDFs, Word and EPUB files, notebooks, OpenAPI specs, man pages, and video — into structured knowledge assets packaged for Claude AI skills, RAG pipelines such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Pinecone, and AI coding assistants including Cursor, Windsurf, and Cline.
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Frequently asked questions
Is wiki or Skill_Seekers more popular?
wiki has 28,937 GitHub stars and Skill_Seekers has 14,993. wiki has the larger community by that measure.
Are wiki and Skill_Seekers free?
Both are open source. wiki is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Skill_Seekers under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between wiki and Skill_Seekers?
wiki is written in Vue and Skill_Seekers in Python. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, wiki or Skill_Seekers?
Choose wiki if you want the larger community (28,937 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose Skill_Seekers if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.