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Wiki in Modern Page format
I added a wiki as an app in Teams the other day and it's super simple and perfect for my needs. Was hoping it was that easy to add to Sharepoint as well, but I'm beginning to learn that it's not. 😞
Until there is an "easy" button for building out Modern SharePoint Wiki's, I found this video for creating "a" modern SharePoint Wiki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWBGX4qc_mU&t=69s. Essentially building pages linked to each other and creating the breadcrumbs with a series of hyperlinks and text webpart. Seems like a lot of work, but for site designers--may be fun! 
This is not ideal. We need what every other Wiki does. A simple tree structure navigation. It should be as simple as having a 'top parent page' field on every page. Then, have a setting in the page library to show a tree index, built from this information.
Right now, creating this is a nightmare, because you have to build the navigation alongside the content!
- Thats exactly NOT what every other Wiki does.
Wikipedia the most famous wiki on earth doesn't do that - The tree index is something that you expect to see in some guides, but is not a wiki.
The entire idea of a wiki - is that you do not need a hierarchy and ALL of the content is flat and searchable. Totally agree. Just sharing a very detailed and an alternate way of creating a Modern Wiki Library experience for end-users I found beneficial. For any step of the tutorial, solutions can be altered...or eliminated to fit whatever use-case is required. I find it fun to implement the given alternative...but hey...that's me.
- Compared to dedicated wiki products like Wikidot and others, Microsft has always been utterly rubbish at wikis.
XabiBeltza You can easily do this by creating metadata exactly as you describe. You could use a "lookup" field to connect pages to their logical parent and/or you can create a Topic column to connect similar pages together. You can then use the Highlighted Content web part to pull all related pages together. If you want pages to sort in a particular order - or at least easily identify the "parent" in each "family," you can add a number to the parent page title - e.g. 01-Name of Page. To connect pages to one another in line, you can use standard wiki notation [[ ]].
