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+========
+Features
+========
+
+Operating System Support
+========================
+Moin is implemented in Python, a platform-independent language.
+It works on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD and other OSes that support
+Python.
+
+That said, Linux is the preferred and most tested deployment platform and
+will likely have fewer issues than, for example, Windows.
+
+Servers
+=======
+* Builtin Python server from werkzeug, which is easy to use.
+* Any server that talks WSGI to moin:
+
+  - Apache2 with mod_wsgi
+  - nginx with uwsgi
+  - IIS with isapi-wsgi (not recommended - if you must use Windows, but have
+    a choice concerning the web server, please use Apache2).
+  - Other WSGI servers, see http://wsgi.org/
+
+* With the help of flup middleware about any other server speaking:
+
+  - fastcgi
+  - scgi
+  - ajp
+  - cgi (slow, not recommended)
+
+Authentication
+==============
+* Builtin - username / password login form of moin, MoinAuth
+* Builtin HTTP Basic Auth - browser login form, HTTPAuthMoin
+* OpenID - relying party, OpenIDAuth
+* Auth against LDAP / Active Directory (LDAPAuth)
+* Any authentication your web server supports via GivenAuth
+
+Authorization
+=============
+* Content Access Control Lists (ACLs)
+
+  - global, using a mapping, so you can apply ACLs on parts of the namespace
+  - local, per wiki item
+  - give rights, such as:
+
+    + create, destroy
+    + read, write, rename
+    + admin
+
+  - to:
+
+    + specific users
+    + specific groups of users
+    + all logged-in users
+    + all users
+
+* Function ACLs
+
+Anti-Spam
+=========
+* TextChas (text captchas)
+* Form Ticketing
+
+Storage
+=======
+Item Types
+----------
+* we store data of any type, such as text, images, audio, binary
+* we separately store any metadata
+* everything is revisioned
+
+Storage Backend Types
+---------------------
+* file system
+* sql database, such as sqlite3 or everything supported by SQLalchemy
+* Kyoto Tycoon / Kyoto Cabinet
+* mongodb
+* you can easily add your own backend with little code
+
+Serialization
+-------------
+* dump backend contents to a single file
+* load backend contents from such a file
+
+Search / Indexing
+=================
+* important metadata is indexed
+* content data is converted (if possible) and indexed
+* fast indexed search, fast internal operations
+* flexible and powerful search queries
+* search current and historical contents
+* using a shared index, find content in any farm wiki
+
+User Interface
+==============
+OO user interface
+-----------------
+* Most functionality is done in the same way no matter what type your wiki
+  item has.
+
+Templating
+----------
+* Theme support / User interface implemented with templates
+
+Wiki features
+-------------
+* Global History for all items (full list)
+* Latest Changes ("Recent Changes"), only lists the latest changes of an item
+* Local History for one item ("History")
+* Diffs between any revision
+
+  + text item diffs, rendered nicely with html
+  + image diffs
+  + binary "diff" (same or not same)
+* Tags / Tag Cloud
+* Missing Items
+* Orphaned Items
+* "What refers here?" functionality
+* "What did I contribute to?" functionality
+* Sitemap
+* Macro support
+* Multiple names and Namespaces support
+
+Markup support
+--------------
+* Moin Wiki
+* Creole
+* MediaWiki
+* reST
+* DocBook XML
+* Markdown
+* HTML
+* plus code / text file highlighting for many formats
+
+Feeds
+-----
+* Atom
+* Google Sitemap
+
+Notification
+------------
+* by email: smtp or sendmail
+
+Translation / Localization
+--------------------------
+* currently English and German translations only; no others will be added until
+  the code and texts for moin2 are more stable
+* any localization, provided by babel / pytz
+
+Logging
+=======
+* Flexible logging provided by `logging` module of python stdlib
+
+Technologies
+============
+* html5, css, javascript with jquery, svg
+* python
+* flask, flask-caching, flask-babel, flask-themes, flask-script
+* whoosh, werkzeug, pygments, flatland, blinker, babel, emeraldtree
+* sqlalchemy (supports all popular SQL DBMS), sqlite, kyoto tycoon/cabinet