Wiki recommendations -- Practical Experience

[Xander Pirdy]

So I was doing some reading into moin-moin today, thinking about using it 
for my personal wiki, to expand some functionality, and I think that it 
meets all of your requirements.

> 1. Easy for end Users.  The end users are NOT "computer people".  (Have basic office skills though)

It includes a WYSIWYG editor, that works with many browsers (excluding at 
the moment apparently safari. Also supports a great deal of input formats 
including restructured text, docbook, XML, HTML, creole and some others. 
Also alows for plugins that extend the range of inputs.

> 2. Document output to hard-copy (preferably by hierarchy)
>   a. Can Export pages to O.O. or PDF

Moinmoin can export to docbook, which can be imported into OO, or parsed 
into a PDF document. (http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/). I know 
that this is two steps, but it might be easy to automate as well. I think 
that this is also posible by hierarchy.

>   b  As an alternative to "a" can print pages to look like a word processing document, not a "web" document.
>   c. Or provides a document version control that can handle OO docs or MSWord
> (The major project involves creating materials for a board meetings, if the users can collaborate in the wiki that is great, but eventually they need to create hard copy packets for attendees)
> 3. Version regression

Yes. The past 100 changes are accessable via the url, but the full history 
can be/is stored.

> 4. Flexibility to import various document / media types and format for display. (pdf, jpeg, spreadsheet . . .)

I am unsure on this one. Can definately do jpeg at the very least. 
Spreadsheets probably depends on what you use to make the spreadsheet 
with. I didn't seem to be able to find any good info on other embedables 
though there seems to be a wealth of feature requests for them (which 
doesn't look good, though you might not need those same types).

> 5. Configurable display

Themes can be added that change the way the wiki looks.

> 6. Easy to install and maintain.  Though I am not on the production team, I have to run the darn thing! (and not getting paid for it).
>
According to the features it is "easy to install" though I bet every wiki 
says that.


> MoinMoin : Looks like a good candidate.  There is at least one exporter to OO format I could find.  I've closed their page at the moment, but I seem to recall that links need to be in CamelCase.  Not good for end product.

No links can be in camel case or in "free links" though I am unsure of 
exactly what that means.

Another thing that it supports, that I figured might be helpful 
(especially for maintaining whiteboard to-do lists), is that users can 
subscribe to changes and be updated via rss, or via email.

Just thought I would share what I found.

Again good luck,
Xander

p.s. most of this information came from 
(http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinFeatures) as you probably figured out.