MoinMoin: MoinMoinFeatures

This page is a high-level feature list (no details) - the rather uncommon features are marked in bold or with a icon...

The WikiEngineComparison also gives a good idea of the available features and can also help in answering the question: "Which is the engine that meets my needs best?". Another option is the Wikimatrix.

Markup

• headings (level 1-5, with or without numbering)

• bold, italic, typewriter, underlined, ^superscript, _subscript, strikeout

• links

  • internal: both CamelCase and free links

  • external: InterWiki links, simple URLs, links with description

  • query string arguments
  • tag attributes
• transclusion (aka embedding)
  • images
  • other mimetypes (using object tag)
• horizontal rules (different widths)
• tables (with some table attributes)
• preformatted text / parsers
  • plain

  • colorized code, with or without line numbers (Python and misc. other languages)

  • safe html

• lists
  • bullet
  • numbered (automatically in decimal, alpha, roman)

• large number of smileys and icons (see HelpOnSmileys)

• inline comments that can be toggled

• admonitions (see HelpOnAdmonitions)

Wiki base features

• creates backups of all page revisions (see FullHistory).

  • Revision history shows only the last 100, all are accessible by editing the url.
• page revision list
• diffs between arbitrary page versions (available in the "Info" action)

• RecentChanges

  • links to diffs, page info and the user home page of the editor

• subpages (see HelpOnEditing/SubPages)

  • supplementation page (e.g. Discussion see HelpOnConfiguration/SupplementationPage)

• I18N (foreign and multi-language) support

• Unicode support, standard encoding is utf-8

• lots of help pages (see HelpContents)

• RSS feed for RecentChanges

• wiki page templates

• configurable edit locking/warning to avoid editing conflicts
• simple page storage (moin simply stores exactly what you see in the editor into a directory that is named like the page)

• copying/deleting/renaming of pages, optionally including subpages

Navigation

• indexing schemes

  • TitleIndex

  • WordIndex

  • WantedPages

  • OrphanedPages

  • AbandonedPages

  • Categories (see CategoryCategory)

• back links by clicking on page title

• enhanced search function: title or full text search, multiple search terms, boolean expressions

• powerful Xapian based indexed search, including attachments and old revisions

• search results may be included into wiki pages via macros

Advanced Features

• GUI (WYSIWYG) and text (markup) editor (Note that although most browsers are compatible with the GUI editor, Safari currently does not support it.)

• large number of macros (see HelpOnMacros)

• attachments (see HelpOnActions/AttachFile)

• email and jabber notification, with diff included, user selectable trivial change notification (see HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport)

• email import - you can write email to your wiki pages

• WikiSynchronisation - keep wiki content in sync

• Caches bytecode-compiled versions of pages to speed up.

• Theming (see HelpOnThemes)

• underlay directory for storing read-only pages (system and help pages)

• access control lists (see HelpOnAccessControlLists)

• several auths possible e.g. openID (see HelpOnAuthentication)

• optional login with username and password

• can reuse authentication done by web server (see HelpOnAuthentication)

• modular authentication makes it easy to support single-sign-on

• pluggable Parsers support many different input formats:

  • ReStructuredText

  • DocBook

  • Creole
  • safe HTML
  • syntax highlighting for python and misc. other languages
  • diffs and CSV
  • XML (with XSLT)
• pluggable Formatters support many different output formats:
  • HTML (of course)
  • plain text

  • DocBook (that means you can generate docbook from wiki markup)

  • XML

• Some AntiSpamFeatures and TextChas.

• Slideshows, see HelpOnSlideShows.

• Twiki draw included, accessable by drawing:some_name. See OliverGraf/TWikiDrawPlugin.

Extensibility

• easily extensible, without changing MoinMoin code (see MoinDev/PluginConcept)

• written in Python! This means that you can easily read and use the source, even if you don't know Python yet.

Plugins:

• actions for top level control (see ActionMarket)

• auth plugins for customizing authentication
• filter plugins for indexing file attachments of different mimetypes (used by xapian search code)

• macros for embedding results into wikipages (see MacroMarket)

• parsers for new input formats (see ParserMarket)

• formatters to produce something other than HTML (see FormatterMarket)

• themes (sets of code, CSS and images, see ThemeMarket)

• xmlrpc

Environment

• Written in Python (http://www.python.org/), so it runs on:

  • Linux
  • UNIX
  • BSD
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows
  • OpenVMS
  • and maybe even other platforms supported by Python
• simple to install
• runs with:
  • standard CGI (Apache, IIS and others)
• runs very fast with:

  • WSGI e.g. Apache with mod_wsgi

  • built-in standalone Python http server

  • Apache or lighttpd with FastCGI

  • Apache with mod_python

  • twisted

  • Zeus Web Server with FastCGI

  • Sun Java System Web Server with FastCGI

• no need for external stuff like:

  • diff
  • rcs, cvs or other
  • PHP
  • SQL or other database.

New Features?

Users can add their wishes for new features on FeatureRequests!