On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <<a href="mailto:jeff@ocjtech.us">jeff@ocjtech.us</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The Fedora Project currently uses Moin Moin, but we're going to be<br>
switching away probably to MediaWiki. The reasons we're switching is<br>
because it doesn't scale very well (the Fedora Project's wiki is<br>
probably the largest/busiest Moin Moin installation out there) and<br>
because the upstream Moin Moin developers don't seem very eager to<br>
accept patches that the Fedora Project has developed.<br>
<br>
Moin Moin uses plain files on disk as it's backend storage. That<br>
makes it simple to install and backup, but doesn't scale well - on the<br>
Fedora Project wiki it could take minutes to do common operations like<br>
save your edits or do searches.</blockquote></div><br>Supposedly this is improved dramatically in Moin 1.6 because of a better search engine in that version. Also, we had the same scalability problems on <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com">wiki.ubuntu.com</a> that you mentioned and they were greatly mitigated when we switched to mod_python. Also, if you think about it, MySQL's database tables are also file based so having a file-based storage doesn't automatically make your system slower.<br>
<br>However, I will say that mediawiki is far more popular of a wiki and if you want the safe choice, you may go that route. I think it's getting more developer attention than Moin.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>
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