[Cialug] Wiki Suggestion Request

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On 2/15/08, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> We use moin moin for our company's wikis and since the 1.5.x series its has
> wysiwyg support built in. It works well and since upgrading to that version
> we've had better participation from non-technical people. I prefer not using
> the wysiwyg unless I need tables and moin lets you easily switch between the
> two views.

The Fedora Project currently uses Moin Moin, but we're going to be
switching away probably to MediaWiki.  The reasons we're switching is
because it doesn't scale very well (the Fedora Project's wiki is
probably the largest/busiest Moin Moin installation out there) and
because the upstream Moin Moin developers don't seem very eager to
accept patches that the Fedora Project has developed.

Moin Moin uses plain files on disk as it's backend storage.  That
makes it simple to install and backup, but doesn't scale well - on the
Fedora Project wiki it could take minutes to do common operations like
save your edits or do searches.  It'd also fail under high load (esp
when Fedora releases a new version).

That said, if your wiki is going to stay small to medium sized Moin
Moin's a very good choice.

Jeff