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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 [[http://www.wikimatrix.org/|Wikimatrix]].

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== 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 MeatBall: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 [[http://xapian.org/|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 TextCha``s.
 * Slideshows, see HelpOnSlideShows.
 * [[http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TWikiDrawPlugin|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 [[http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/|mod_wsgi]]
  * built-in standalone Python http server
  * Apache or lighttpd with [[http://www.fastcgi.com|FastCGI]]
  * Apache with [[http://www.modpython.org|mod_python]]
  * [[http://twistedmatrix.com/|twisted]]
  * [[http://www.zeus.com/products/zws/|Zeus Web Server]] with [[http://www.fastcgi.com|FastCGI]]
  * [[http://www.sun.com/webserver/|Sun Java System Web Server]] with [[http://www.fastcgi.com|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!