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[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Corey Burger wrote:

>I dispute that, and also state the main reason it was not considered
>was due to it being PHP.
>
I wouldn't say that's true. I was quite involved in making the decision
to move and highly involved in planning the move. The issue of PHP was
never really raised. We consider the MoinMoin wiki itself to be an
outstanding system with many great features.

Obviously Python  is a favored language in our organisation, but that is
not just about security issues. It is a language that many of the Ubuntu
devels know very well and they can therefore write extensions easily, do
code review and make it inter-operate with our existing infrastructure.
This is how the authentication system for existing users was developed.

I'm sure there are issues that can be improved with the usability of
Moin, but simply saying that everything is better in MediaWiki is not
helpful and not correct. If you really want to see something
implemented, I suggest to submit a 'Feature Request' to the Moin site
(many of the things you mention are not really bugs.)
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/FeatureRequests Try to provide as much
detail as possible.

Btw: the two other wikis I admin are MediaWikis, which I've chosen at
the time because I like the system. I have had issues with it though,
both security related and database corruption. Having used Moin for some
time now, I'd say it's just as powerful (but we'll disagree on that I
suppose).

See:
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/theopencd/wiki/
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/

- Henrik