Wiki's are still doing well in the gaming space I think (https://oldschool.runescape.wiki to name one, has a dedicated community of thousands of players behind it).
I agree with you in general though, the GitHub wikis really don't feel the same.
There are a lot of gaming wikis but unfortunately a lot of them are hosted by Fandom, and it's hard for independent alternatives to compete with Fandoms SEO.
I think one of the best alternative (that is still free) is actually github pages. The problem is that the contribution model is not trivially solvable via permissioning - the owner of the github page has to approve (the PR changes).
Ideally, what would be best is if there's a set of github action that would automerge changes from a list of approved contributors (who would first fork the page, make the edits and submit a PR). This set of github action would need to be a turn-key setup, without needing much technical knowledge (so that the laymen can do it).
I agree with you in general though, the GitHub wikis really don't feel the same.