MoinMoin: ChristopherPoppe

Christopher Poppe

• "It is easy to install and easy to use, and still is flexible enough." That's why Intevation uses MoinMoin-Wikisoftware. They use it for coordination with business partners and sometimes with customers. But they don't use it only, also they use mailing lists and issue trackers for coordination. It is very helpful for Intevation, and many of their users like it. Some of them dislike wikis generally, but think that moinmoin is one of the best wikis. Intevation uses MoinMoin with the standard theme and the moderncmstheme. It make's it not so wiki alike. They want to see more CMS Themes for pages which should not look like wikipages. They need such not-so-wiki-alike-pages, and because of this they miss support of cms and webapplications. Also they dislike most that they can't disable WikiStyleAutomaticLinks for making pages not so wiki-alike. Intevation don't write own plugins, but they edited the core code of MoinMoin. They modified wikiacl.py to add an ACL group "Anonymous" containing all unknown users and also had to fix python bugs, which is not in the recent version. They had to disable the code which creates <link> tags for attachments (wikiutil.py), because for these ACLs are not checked so names of potentially configdential attach where presented to anonymous users. They uses the dot.py parser for GraphViz dot files. This is very helpful to quick draw some diagrams, but if they want to include the same graphic in other documentation they most often render the diagram outside of MoinMoin and just attach the generated in the WikiSoftware. Intevation uses a public GForge server with the PhpWiki plugin. They think it was the only avaible plugin for GForge by the timewe added that. They don't use the Moin Plugin for GForge yet. On wiki.kolab.org Intevation provide hosting a Media Wiki. They thought about switching to MoinMoin-Wikisoftware but the server should be soon go offline¹)>>.

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