MoinMoin

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MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python. MoinMoin is based on PikiPiki wiki engine, and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

The back end is flat files and folders, rather than a database, which makes it easy to manipulate the content in a text editor on the server if need be, including managing revisions if the wiki gets attacked by spammers. However, the use of flat files does not allow for scalability and limits the ability of the software to make the most of the relational nature of databases (such as fast responses to queries like "What links here?"). This can be overcome in a variety of ways, claim its advocates, that don't require the overhead of full relational databases.

MoinMoin uses CamelCase linking by default, but also has support for non-CamelCase linking.

MoinMoin also has extensive support for Access Control Lists (ACL) that greatly increase its useability in a content management system (CMS).

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