Getting started with a personal wiki and moinmoin

Question

I have been planning to start a personal wiki to organize my projects. After shopping for a personal wiki I settled on moinmoin desktop.

It seemed like a good option: no complicated installation, no db and written in Python (which is a plus for me, in case I want to tweek the code).

However, I a bit overwhelmed and have no idea where to start...

Are there any good tutorials or books on this system?

Do you recommend another wiki which might have a richer documentation, books, tutorials and so forth?

Answer 1

I would recommend mediawiki. It has a big bunch of extensions and we could start hands off using it. These examples helped a lot.

What speaks for it is that it is used within Wikipedia

• Means well maintained and actively developed
• Large user community, lots of help, links examples
• Can deal with many users, big amount of data (scales well and is stable, secure)

At the moment we are really happy with it. We had to setup some extensions but it rewards. we evaluated other wikis ourselves after selecting a few from Wikimatrix. Wikimedia was our prefered one.

Answer 2

I've not used it yet, but TiddlyWiki is all in JavaScript, so there's not really an install, other than downloading it. The documentation looks pretty good at first glance.

Answer 3

moinmoin is python greatness / easy / performant / easy to secure for a personal wiki. See PersonalMoinMoin for more.

it's also easy to make your own personal blog (public or not) using the following code in a new empty Blog page:

<<MonthCalendar>>

=== 5 last items ===
<<Include(^Blog/.*,,to="CategoryBlog",sort=descending,items=5)>>
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CategoryBlog