Category:MoinMoin: Difference between revisions

{{Wiki Engine <!--see 'Template:Wiki Engine' for full detail-->

|logo            = https://static.MoinMo.in/logos/moinmoin.png

|maintopic        = Wiki Engine

|founder          = Jürgen Hermann<br><small>(inventor)</small><br>Martin Pool<br><small>(base creator)</small>

|CEO              = Owner and/or CEO<br><small>(owner and/or CEO)</small><!--Owner or Chief Executive Officer, if none, use 'No'-->

|language        = Multilingual

|prog language    = Python

|status          = Active

}}{{WikiTourBus|2|66|101|url=https://MoinMo.in/TourBusStop}}

'''MoinMoin''', created in {{tag|Germany}}, is an extensible {{tag|Wiki Engine|wiki engine}} written in {{tag|Python}}, cloned or {{tag|fork}}ed from {{tag|PikiPiki}}.  It uses only a file-based data store (and does ''not'' support any of the [[:Category:SQL|SQL]] or [[:Category:Oracle|Oracle]] protocols).  MoinMoin supported [[:Category:Wiki syntax|syntax]] includes [[CamelCase]], [[free link]]s and [[backlink]]s, and also utilises [[interwiki]] and {{tag|ACL}} (access control lists).  MoinMoin is {{tag|open source}} software, and is released for {{tag|free software|free}} under the {{tag|GNU General Public License|GNU General Public License, version 2}} (GPLv2).[https://MoinMo.in/GPL]

The main 'meta' wiki homepage here on [[WikiIndex]] for MoinMoin is: [[MoinMoin wiki]].  It has a large community of users.  However, [[Archive.org:20090926053710/http://pentropy.Twisty-Industries.com/new-nginx-wiki-live|criticism of MoinMoin by Cliff Wells]] includes its high memory consumption ("hundreds of megabytes", compared to less than 100 Mb by [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]) and cumbersome navigation.  Similar criticism states that MoinMoin [[Archive.org:20101021050211/http://rwhe.Posterous.com/ludismorg-wikis-are-back-up|"is an overly complex package and was very difficult to maintain, upgrade, and – as it happened – restore from backup"]].  It will also be noticed that when using the in-built themes or [[:Category:Skins|skins]], MoinMoin is not as graphically 'pleasing' as some other wiki engines, though this can be addressed by way of the many available [[:Category:Custom skin|custom skins]].

;''MoinMoin etymology<!--added by Sean, aka Hoof!-->

The MoinMoin wiki engine software was conceived and created in {{tag|Germany}}, and the word 'moin' is a common, if slightly informal [[:Category:German|German]] word.  American translations for moin state it literally means 'hello', and their literal translation for MoinMoin is 'Good Morning'.[https://translate.Google.co.uk/#de/en/moin%0A%0AMoinMoin]  However, from a Germanic mother tongue, those are not entirely correct.  Whilst moin is typically used as a spoken greeting, different regions of Germany, along with other Germanic speaking nations, all have different variations of the German language.  In Frisian, moin means 'good', as in 'good day', and MoinMoin is an extended emphasis, typically meaning 'a very good day to you'.  A typical Irish literation for MoinMoin would be 'top of the morning'.  Franconian, a form of middle German from the Rhur region (and commonly spoken in Luxembourg), moin means 'hello'.  Moin is not common-place in Prussian German, the local dialect in Berlin and the former communist East German ''lander'' (states).  Moin is also not common-place in southern German states.  To attempt to pin-point exactly where moin originates from – it could best be described as coming from low-land German states, in the north-west of the country, along with potential origins from Benelux and even southern Scandinavia.[https://Moinmo.in/MoinMoinEtymology]  So as clear as mud, eh!

;''External links

{{WikiEngineFeatures}}

*[http://cbonar.free.fr/DokuWiki2MoinMoin/ DokuWiki to MoinMoin (and reverse) converter]

 

;''MoinMoin [[:Category:Wiki Size|size]] information

:add either <tt>/SystemInfo</tt> or <tt>/PageSize</tt> at the end of the URL –

:<code><nowiki>https://YourWikiURL.org/SystemInfo</nowiki></code> or

:<code><nowiki>https://YourWikiURL.org/PageSize</nowiki></code>

;''MoinMoin [[wikiFactor]] information

:add <tt>/PageHits</tt> at the end of the URL – <code><nowiki>https://YourWikiURL.org/PageHits</nowiki></code>