MoinMoin: CommonUserAccounts

This page describes in detail how common user accounts work in MoinMoin. The documentation can be found in HelpOnUserHandling.

Implementation details

The main account file <userid> (named like 1234567.123.4567) is shared by all wikis. It keeps most of the user settings.

quicklinks and subscribed_pages should be interwiki style.

<userid>.trail contains the shared trail.

<userid>.<interwikiname>.bookmark contains the bookmark for the wiki with interwikiname == <interwikiname>.

old ideas (not implemented!)

If we have one big wiki:

• The default wiki you get automatically will be Farm, which has all the system pages from underlay, and a web configuration page, and may be accessible at http://localhost/Farm (probably with customized name)

• There will be no FrontPage, but WikiName - the front page of a wiki

• http://localhost/WikiName/RecentChanges will show the recent changes of the wiki.

• http://localhost/Farm/RecentChanges will show the recent changes of all wikis.

• Users belong to the farm - http://localhost/Farm/UserName and shared by all wikis like underlay pages, e.g http://localhost/WikiName/UserName

• quicklinks are simply WikiName/PageName links

  • This will complicate the usage of quick links for users of 90% of all MoinMoin wiki.

• trail is shared in the farm, as its not a path to a page in the wiki, just a history of last pages in the farm.

• the farm may have single config file per farm, and one config file in the name of the wiki - no need to define a wiki list, simply try to load a config with the name of the first component. For http://localhost/Wikiname/RecentChanges, try to load 'WikiName' config module.

  • This is more inflexible. In fact, this will disallow the usage like you see it in this wiki.
• Creating a new wiki can be easy as creating a sub page in the top level, which can be protected by acl.
• plugin will be shared by the farm, maybe no one need wiki specific plugin.
  • Sometimes you do want wiki specific plugins.

Here is a possible layout - new farm after you install:

farm/
    bin/
        moin.cgi
    config/
        farmconfig.py
        FarmWiki.py
    logs/
    underlay/
    wikis/
        FarmWiki/
            pages/
                WebConfig
                UserA
                UserB
            logs/

And after you create your first wiki:

farm/
    bin/
    config/
        farmconfig.py
        FarmWiki.py
        FirstWiki.py
    plugin
    underlay/
    wikis/
        FarmWiki/
            pages/
            logs/
        FirstWiki/
            pages/
            logs/

Maybe this should be long term...

long term

... will be different, as it is planned to move user account data into items in 2.0.