I need to set up a wiki for a small group. I've played with MoinMoin a little bit and it's reasonably straightforward to set up, but limited in capabilities and uses BogusMarkupConventions. I want to use it anyway because I need something running right away and I don't want to spend a whole lot of time messing with it.
In the larger world, though, there's currently One True wiki package, namely Mediawiki (used by Wikipedia). Mediawiki is written in PHP and is far more complex than MoinMoin, plus it's database backed, meaning you have to run an SQL server as well as the wiki software itself (MoinMoin just uses the file system). Plus, I'll guess that it really needs mod_php, while MoinMoin runs tolerably as a set of cgi's, at least when traffic is low. I'll say that I haven't actually looked at the Mediawiki code, though I guess I should do so. What I'm getting at is I might like to install MoinMoin now and migrate to Mediawiki sometime later. Anyone have any thoughts about whether that's a crazy plan? Should I just bite the bullet and run Mediawiki from the beginning? Is anyone here actually running Mediawiki who can say just how big a hassle it is? There are actually two wikis I want to run, one of which I need immediately, but which will be private, low traffic and stay that way. The other one will be public and is planned grow to medium size (a few thousand active users), but which I don't need immediately. I definitely want the second one to eventually run Mediawiki. I can probably keep the first one on MoinMoin indefinitely, but that would mean I'm eventually running two separate wiki packages, which gets confusing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
