OT: best FOSS wiki for this classroom scenario?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

M. Fioretti wrote:

>I have been asked to install, on an AWS instance running Linux, a
>wiki for a few classes of a private school. Requirements are simple,
>I just welcome some advice as to which FOSS wiki is best for this
>specific scenario:

I wouldn't say that this is OT. The Ubuntu wiki uses MoinMoin, so
that's what I've been using for my personal wiki.

>- < 50 users total (students, teachers, admins)
>
>- bulk user creation by syadmin
>
>- support for separate user groups, with supervisors. By default, the
>  pages created by any student of a class should be visible only to
>  other students and teachers of the same class, each student should
>  also be able to set her pages in private mode (i.e. permission 700,
>  using Linux conventions), and only see/comment (but NOT edit or
>  delete) the pages of other students of the same class. And the
>  teacher of each class, of course, should be able to
>  read/write/change all pages of that class.

These three are covered on this page: http://moinmo.in/UserManagement
  
>- organize pages in folders/subfolders

This is covered on this page: http://moinmo.in/HelpOnEditing/SubPages

>- visual/GUI page editor

This is covered on this page: http://moinmo.in/HelpOnGraphicalEditor

I don't use the GUI editor, so I have no experience with it, but
others here probably do.

>- optional: page history

If you go to the "Actions Toolbar" section on this page, the "Info"
entry is about the page history: http://moinmo.in/HelpOnNavigation

>Mediawiki seems a real overkill, I am looking at dokuwiki right now,
>but other suggestions are really welcome!

I have no experience with either of those, so I don't know which
of the three would be most efficient or powerful, etc. I can tell you
that you can install MoinMoin from the Ubuntu repositories or without
installing it at all (desktop mode). You can also use it online (like
the Ubuntu wiki) or keep it private and only for your own use:

http://moinmo.in/DesktopEdition

I had initially grabbed a copy of it to learn MoinMoin so I'd know
how to edit Ubuntu wiki pages, but I quickly discovered that I liked
how it organized information, so I kept it and have used it for years
as my private wiki. Now I wouldn't want to be without it.

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Little Girl

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