Simon
From: Wellington New Zealand
Email: I've been spammed badly recently, leave me a note if you want to contact me.
Why : Use to use MoinMoin as a home wiki.
Also a user of UseModWiki for an intranet at work and PmWiki:PmWiki (so easy to install). Now if I could find an easy way to migrate ...
- Pros
features, especially tables; ease of use for the less computer literate; available for Windows and Unix; use of CSS to control look and feel; OpenSource on SourceForge; responses from developers.
- Cons
difficulty in engaging MoinMoin community for assistance; use of email list rather than wiki for discussions (ie having to find and search email archive rather than wiki); questions I can't get answered below, hard to install on windows.
Q & A
Q: Can we get some markup to work in titles?
A: eg 10th Anniversary Celebration !
10^th^ Anniversary '''Celebration'' '''!'''
Q: Is there a facility similar to BracketedLinks?
A: RTFM (HelpOnLinking, AliasedLink) I guess I didn't express this very clearly, although I did read the friendly manual, what I wanted to do was [WikiName text], eg [HelpOnLinking read this]. This facility works for InterWiki, eg read this, coded as [wiki:MoinMoin/HelpOnLinking read this], all I want to be able to do is leave off the [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/wiki/applets/FCKeditor/editor/ ]code "wiki:MoinMoin/".
A2: Create an InterWiki link back to your own wiki using the Self name read this [wiki:Self:HelpOnLinking read this], or (seemingly undocumented) just go read this [:HelpOnLinking: read this]
A3: All you need is the "wiki:" moniker to tell it that this is not a http URL: read this ([wiki:HelpOnLinking read this]). Some other undocumented syntax may work now but might be deprecated later, so don't rely on it.
Q: How do to I force text not to break, or how can I use ?
A:   -- thanks, so "@"=@ and "."=., etc would be easier though
Q: Supplementary question: how do I get @ to work in bracketed URLs, viz
foo@bar.org . Coded as [mailto:foo@bar.org foo@bar.org] as a munging technique (and because I prefer it to mailto:foo@bar.org because I don't see the "mailto: and I do see the cute envelope icon).
A: See HelpOnMacros/MailTo.
Q: I changed the configuration variable page_front_page to WelcomePage, but the header menu line still shows FrontPage. How can I change it to show the page named in the page_front_page configuration variable?
A: Change navi_bar, too. yes .... reference please. I have now attempted to inspect the code that generates the Navi bar. It all looks OK, but the fact remains that the Navi bar still says FrontPage when it should say WelcomePage.
WishList
in order of preference
being able to use . @ in URLs and use named entities anywhere (eg ¢)
- titles in tables
- compact definition lists
- ie on the same line
cross icon to go with
(tick/checkmark) (smileys), and {nz} flag
What I Know
(not much eh!)
To install a macro copy it to the macro directory (under lib/Python/MoinMoin/) ?Don't quote me on this yet, haven't got a contributed macro to work - see the question above. -- I'm guessing it has something to do with permissions or paths
I have macros working under windows, and the directory the macro is installed in is C:\Moin\Lib\site-packages\MoinMoin\macro
Well silly me, after searching high and low the HTML macro should be in /lib/python2.2/site-packages/MoinMoin/macro/ on the unix system, now why didn't I guess that!
See also
PmWiki - now my wiki of choice, sorry
Feedback
Archive of /FeedBack.
Hi Simon, I looked at your MailTo macro, but that was not quite what I wanted. I uploaded a different one to MacroMarket, maybe you want to have a look at that one, too. -- ThomasWaldmann