Hello All: I've got three separate projects whose (best) solution involves a Wiki. I've gone through the Wiki Matrix and read through many Wiki homepages and FAQs. I don't think any Wiki out there meets *all* of my feature needs, but fortunately I'm comfortable coding up the occasional plug-in or patch.
I'd REALLY like to use MoinMoin, it seems to meet most of my needs
and its written in a language I know.
Before I take the plunge, there are a couple of lingering questions I
have, if anyone can suggest pointers to documentation or outright
answers that would be great.
1. One of the features I like is that I can produce docbook from MM
mark-up. From there it just a couple more pipe-symbols to a high
quality PDF :^) Suppose I'd like to generate a PDF of a Wiki at some
point in the *past* --- is there a straightforward way to do this?
Actually, I mean straightforward+elegent: I'm sure I could just
use datestamps or preemtively record file tree info to make a copy of
the Wiki... BTW: I believe I already know that attachments don't have
any history, I'm OK with that for now. Put another way, if MM used a
version-controlled store, I'd be asking about how to branch, snapshot,
or tag at some point in history.
2. Is there an external mechanism for locking the MM repository? My
back-up solution would probably include LVM, so I just need a method
to momentarily lock the repo until a snapshot is setup.
3. (And this is the BIG ONE) Two of my projects are going to be VERY
media intensive. Lots of scanned documents, photos, videos and audio.
So one thing I would REALLY like is a generic media database connected
to the WiKi in some way.
One solution might be to create pages based on some type of domain
centric grouping (dates, content, media type,...) and have the media
elements attached to this page. The actual page "text" would be treated
as a free form database (I'm thinking SMTP header-line like formats,
this would require a Parser plugin? Forgive me, I'm not quite facile
with the MM lingo yet). I've noted in some of the docs (FAQ?) that a
group has done much the same thing (minus the media attachments) for a
Top 100 Book List.
Otherwise I'd opt for an external database with a Wiki hosted upload
form.
My understanding is that either would require some sort of MM plugin
that allows linking to individual media elements from other MM pages.
It would also support searching and sorting. My impression is that
other other plugins do the same (ImageLink, Gallery, ...) sort of thing,
so I feel like all of this should be possible.
BTW, I really expect this to be a fair amount of media data. I know of
at least a gig ready for a wiki now. Can anyone offer up their
experience with attaching this much data to MM pages? Does performance
suffer?
Finally (and this really isn't a question, just an aside), I've read
that MM 2.0 will/should/is-hoped-to-have a generic backend interface for
databases or versioning systems. I think this would be great, it would
obviously solve my first question. In some of my discussions with
acquaintances that run their own WiKis, this seems to be a
"look-down-on" feature-hole of MoinMoin. I'm not sure it should be, it
is just what I've noticed.
Thanks in advance for everyone's input,
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