I'm looking for a Wiki engine to set up for my company, so that we can incrementally add user documentation for a fairly complex program, plus allow users to add their own comments for the benefit of others. I'd strongly prefer a Python-based Wiki, since that allows me the chance to add plugins with minimal effort (being a python enthusiast and programmer).
However, I'd also like something that can provide a little more structure than MoinMoin seems able to provide (correct me if I'm wrong.) Though there would be cross-references amongst various sections, the idea is that the structure of the wiki would be very much that of an outline, with topics divided into sub topics and then into sub sub topics, etc. A person at our company would be the "editor"; responsible for setting up the original structure, putting in the documentation we currently have, and periodically editing contributions from users. Here are some of the features I'd greatly like to have that I haven't seen provided by the (relatively few) wiki engines I've looked at. Mind you, I don't claim to have looked at even these few exhaustively. (No time!) MoinMoin is the one I've looked at the most. 1) Automatically generated table of contents, based on the outline structure. This would be regenerated periodically (probably nightly) 2) Ability for users to add new subsections, but not to change that part of the document structure which has been locked by the editor. 3) Clear visual distinction between material added by the users, and material added or approved by the editor. 4) Legal-style numbering of sections, subsections, etc. 5) Ability to have single pages containing both locked text (which users cannot edit or delete) and unlocked text. Such a page would consist of one or more locked blocks of text, interspersed with comments put in by users. Users could put comments anywhere except side a locked text block. Ideally, this would also be something that doesn't depend on a backend database or other things besides the web server and python packages. This is not likely to be a wiki where huge amounts of interactivity must be supported; there will probably be a moderate amount of reading, and a small amount of writing. If you know of any Python wiki engines which can satisfy (even partially) this list, please let me know. I'd strongly prefer to have a Python engine. On the other hand, if you know of another type of wiki that matches well with these requirements, I won't complain if you mention it :-) Thanks, Ken McDonald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list