Template:For MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python, based on the PikiPiki wiki engine, and licensed under the GNU GPL.
MoinMoin's back end is flat files and folders, rather than a database, which makes it easy to manipulate the content in a text editor on the server if need be, including managing revisions if the wiki gets attacked by spammers. However, the use of flat files does not allow for scalability and limits the ability of the software to make the most of the relational nature of databases (such as fast responses to queries like "What links here?"). This can be overcome in a variety of ways, claim its advocates, that don't require the overhead of full relational databases. A storage abstraction layer is currently being worked on, which will allow the server administrator to select between flat file-storage or a relational database.
MoinMoin supports plugins and can be extended via Macros and Actions. It also uses the idea of separate parsers (eg. for parsing the wiki syntax) and formatters (eg. for outputting HTML code) with a SAX-like interface between the two. The idea is that if you want to be able to output DocBook instead of HTML, you only need to write a docbook-formatter that implements the formatter interface, and all parsers that use the interface will automatically be supported.
An extreme example of using the power of the MoinMoin architecture is that it should be possible to use a plugin which is able to use MediaWiki pages as virtual moinmoin pages and parse them using the media4moin-parser. The final result could then be turned in to DocBook using the docbook formatter. So it should be possible to convert wikipedia articles automatically to docbook by using existing MoinMoin tools.
MoinMoin uses CamelCase linking by default, but also has support for non-CamelCase linking.
MoinMoin also has extensive support for Access Control Lists (ACL) that greatly increase its usability in a content management system (CMS).
There is a Desktop Version of MoinMoin.
See also
- Comparison of wiki software
- Zwiki another Wiki written in Python for the Zope CMS
External links
es:MoinMoin ja:MoinMoin pt:MoinMoin fi:MoinMoin fr:MoinMoin