MoinMoin

=MoinMoin= []
 * Software systems / MoinMoin**

MoinMoin has been used to power a number of public wikis, notably those which provide support for free software (Ubuntu, Apache, Debian, FreeBSD). It is free of charge and open source (GNU GPL). MoinMoin is written in Python, and stores its data in flat files, though a development is under way to introduce an abstraction layer so that it could alternatively use a database. One interesting feature of MoinMoin is that there is a separation between the Parser and Formatter modules. The idea is that you could get the wiki to export a version of a page in XML or DocBook instead of HTML.
 * Runs on many platforms: Linux, BSD, OpenVMS, Mac OS X, Windows
 * Simple installation; user customisation via themes and CSS
 * Choice of GUI and text mark-up editors. Wiki Creole support is possible. What you see in the editor is what gets saved into the backing store.
 * Creates backups of all page revisions
 * Access control list features so you can define who can read, edit, delete or revert a page.
 * Multilingual, with UTF-8 support
 * Optional Xapian-based indexation of content and search (including over old revisions)

There has recently been a fork from MoinMoin to develop a system called Sycamore, which is very similar but mandates the use of a SQL database for data storage.

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