1. Background

We are currently using moinmoin version 1.9 for this wiki. Version 1.9 requires Python 2.7 which is no longer developed by Python upstream, and will not be available in future Debian releases. Moinmoin 2 solves that and had many other improvements, but it is still in development.

2. Features

2.1. Current

• Not tied to HCoop accounts, and anyone can create an account

• TextCHA for spam prevention

• Domtool/installer help for member's own installations
• Filesystem storage

2.2. Desired

• Current content can be migrated
• Actively developed

2.3. Options

See also Wikipedia's wiki comparison

2.3.1. Gitit

• https://github.com/jgm/gitit

• Implemented in Haskell
• Darcs, Git, or Mercurial storage

2.3.2. Gollum

• https://github.com/gollum/gollum

• Implemented in Ruby
• Git storage

2.3.3. ikiwiki

• https://ikiwiki.info/

• Implemented in Perl
• Git or SVN storage

2.3.4. MediaWiki

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

• Implemented in PHP
• Database storage

2.3.5. Moinmoin under Tauthon

Tauthon is a fork of Python 2 that is actively developed. It maintains backwards compatibility with Python 2 while adding language features from Python 3 in a backwards compatible way. We could run moinmoin 1.9 with Tauthon. It is currently not packaged for Debian.

2.3.6. Trac

• https://trac.edgewall.org/

• Implemented in Python
• Database storage
• Also has an issue tracker

See also Apache Bloodhound

2.3.7. XWiki

• https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

• Implemented in Java
• Database storage