Wiki Moin Moin Review Zero Five

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General

• Date of Review: 25 November, 2000

• Software and Version Reviewed: MoinMoin Release 0.5 (features in the current development version carry a [0.6] tag)

• Review Summary:

• Review Quality: Basic technical info

• Standard Features Missing:

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Software

• Server OS: Any (though you probably will have a hard time on MacOS)

• Language: Python

• Database: File system (later versions might require a DB engine for more sophisticated features)

• Required Software:
  • Python (1.5.2 or 2.0)
  • CGI-capable web server (known configurations: Apache 1.3.x on Windows and Unix; MS-IIS 4.0)
  • On Windows, you need a diff utility (the cygwin package, available from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/download.html)

• License: GPL

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WikiFarms

• Name / cost / limits / URL: None known.

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Content

• Display original Wiki text? Yes (I assume, no detailed check; definition lists using "TAB label TAB: description" are definitely missing though); test page: http://purl.net/wiki/moin/WikiTextFormattingTestPage

• Text editing rules: Extended Wiki markup (http://purl.net/wiki/moin/HelpContents); MoinMoin has pluggable parsers, so you can add any markup system.

• Headings? Yes (using "= header =" markup, up to 5 levels; support for table of contents).

• Allowable WikiNames: Literally any (default is Latin-1 with 0-9 regarded as lowercase letters, the character sets for uppercase and lowercase are configurable; special markup allows any sequence of characters to be a wiki name, thus there are quite a few Japanese MoinMoin wikis).

• Subpages? No (planned extension).

• Max Page Size: Browser limitation only.

• Tables? Yes (using StructuredText markup).

• Images? Yes.

• Attachments? No, but embedded external links.

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Readability

• Search capabilities: Title index, word index, title search, full-text regex search, goto pagename, embedded lists of pages conforming to a regex pattern.

• Email notification of changes: Not yet, soon to come.

• Diffs: Yes, for all pages in the history against the current page.

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Security

• Embedded HTML (risky): No, but can be added very easily as a parser if wanted.

• Password protection? No (planned extension).

• Delete Pages?

• Revision Snapshots? Yes, full history.

• Rollback: Not automatic (manually from the history using diff, see also below for the "raw" feature).

• Delete Snapshots?

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Working Well with Others

• Static or dynamic web pages: Dynamic.

• Indexed by search engines? By default, MoinMoin emits a <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> element (configurable).

• InterWiki Links? Yes, with support for UseMod's interwiki list

• Import / Export Features: On the OS level, the pages files can be copied, tar'ed, etc. For example, the MoinMoin wiki itself is put under CVS control in addition to the built-in versioning.

• Translators to/from other Wikis? Not built-in, but possible by the parser/formatter mechanism used to parse and emit pages.

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Miscellaneous

• Extra Features: "fancy" links, user preferences [0.6], inline code and code displays, graphical smileys, page redirects, table of contents within a page [0.6], "printable" version of page (excluding headers, editing links, ...), "raw" page text (get the wiki markup as text/plain), numbered lists with different styles (numeric, roman, alpha) and start values [0.6].

• References:
  • http://purl.net/wiki/moin/FrontPage

• Browsers Used:
  • The development version is checked against IE 5.5

• Comments by Users:
  • I've been using MoinMoin for my own stuff... and I really like it. It's well documented, full featured, easy to use, and I found it very easy to modify when I wanted to add a feature. Thanks JuergenHermann, for making this available! -- MichaelChermside

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Originator / Author, Maintainer, Contributors

• Originator / Author: JuergenHermann (providing the basic technical info)
• Contributors: <add your Wiki name, move this to next line>

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