Features
Operating System Support
Moin is implemented in Python, a platform-independent language. It works on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD and other OSes that support Python.
That said, Linux is the preferred and most tested deployment platform and will likely have fewer issues than, for example, Windows.
Servers
Builtin Python server from werkzeug, which is easy to use.
Any server that talks WSGI to moin:
Apache2 with mod_wsgi
nginx with uwsgi
IIS with isapi-wsgi (not recommended - if you must use Windows, but have a choice concerning the web server, please use Apache2).
Other WSGI servers, see https://wsgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest
With the help of flup middleware about any other server speaking:
fastcgi
scgi
ajp
cgi (slow, not recommended)
Authentication
Builtin - username / password login form of moin, MoinAuth
Builtin HTTP Basic Auth - browser login form, HTTPAuthMoin
Auth against LDAP / Active Directory (LDAPAuth)
Any authentication your web server supports via GivenAuth
Anti-Spam
Form Ticketing
Storage
Item Types
we store data of any type, such as text, images, audio, binary
we separately store any metadata
everything is revisioned
Storage Backend Types
file system
sqlite3
everything supported by SQLalchemy
you can easily add your own backend with little code
Serialization
dump backend contents to a single file
load backend contents from such a file
Search / Indexing
important metadata is indexed
content data is converted (if possible) and indexed
fast indexed search, fast internal operations
flexible and powerful search queries
search current and historical contents
using a shared index, find content in any farm wiki
User Interface
OO user interface
Most functionality is done in the same way no matter what type your wiki item has.
Templating
Theme support / User interface implemented with templates
Wiki features
Global History for all items (full list)
Latest Changes (“Recent Changes”), only lists the latest changes of an item
Local History for one item (“History”)
Diffs between any revision
text item diffs, rendered nicely with html
image diffs
binary “diff” (same or not same)
Tags / Tag Cloud
Missing Items
Orphaned Items
“What refers here?” functionality
“What did I contribute to?” functionality
Sitemap
Macro support
Multiple names and Namespaces support
Markup support
Moin Wiki
Creole
MediaWiki
reST
DocBook XML
Markdown
HTML
plus code / text file highlighting for many formats
Feeds
Atom
Google Sitemap
Notification
by email: smtp or sendmail
Translation / Localization
currently English and German translations only; no others will be added until the code and texts for moin2 are more stable
any localization, provided by babel / pytz
Logging
Flexible logging provided by logging module of python stdlib
Technologies
html5, css, javascript with jquery, svg
python
flask, flask-caching, flask-babel, flask-theme, click
whoosh, werkzeug, pygments, flatland, blinker, babel, emeraldtree
sqlalchemy (supports all popular SQL DBMS), sqlite, kyoto tycoon/cabinet