Revision as of 18:32, 17 March 2011

I did a walkthrough of wikimatrix.org and ended up with MoinMoin and XWiki as choices. MoinMoin is Python based, while XWiki is Java based. I'm guessing we will lean hard towards MoinMoin.

MoinMoin

The documentation home is http://moinmo.in/Documentation. There does not appear to be a single HTML page or PDF version of the doc, and it's spread out. Therefore, my notes here will be spread out too.

Page Hierarchy

Does it support this?

• http://moinmo.in/PagesHierarchy
  • Says use SubPages, which appear to be a single level of organization; mechanism similar to BitBucket's.
• http://moinmo.in/HierarchicalWiki
  • Answers the question: NO.
  • Points at http://moinmo.in/FacetedClassificationInMoin, which I don't think is implemented.

Doc seems to be in a chaotic state. Making me miss TWiki already.

Categories / Tags

MoinMoin supports this. Does not appear to support category hierarchy.

Attachments

Files are attached to particular pages, but can be linked to from other pages.

• http://moinmo.in/HelpOnActions/AttachFile

CamelCase

Camel Case links are native. Links with Embedded spaces are also supported.

Images

Can embed and resize internal and external images, but I don't think you can control the link.

Links

Can encode get strings.

Anchors and Headings

Can insert anchors arbitrarily, but I don't think section names automatically generate them.

Heading may not contain wiki markup.

Tables

Standard table markup forces all columns onto a single row.

Macros

It supports Macros that are Python code. It also supports page includes. I'm not sure if it supports variables/parameters in the includes.

There is a list of 19 contributed macros at

• http://moinmo.in/MacroMarket#Release_1.9

Markup Languages

Supports these out of the box.

• wiki - the default MoinMoin
• creole
• ReST
• XML/XSLT/DocBook

Supports highlighting of code, given the language.

Can install contributed plugins for

• GraphViz
• Textile