As suggested by Jason:
* http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-November/016197.html

See also http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1242

I second this suggestion. gitit looks like a much nicer wiki than the current one.

For those who want to actually see gitit in action, Lemmih has a public wiki
using gitit (it's hosting his JHC-fork documentation), at http://lhc.seize.it/

For switching, we have a few needs:

> "categories (not as nice as mediawiki's, but servicable) and ACLs (only for
spam control, and making some pages immutable though)."

Gitit doesn't have categories, although I've suggested them and John's
put them on the todo list.

Gitit does support making specified pages uneditable or undeletable, eg if you
look at the SampleConfig.hs you see:
 ...
 noEdit              = ["Help", "Front Page"],
 noDelete            = ["Help", "Front Page"],
 ...

(Which do pretty much what they sound like.)

Spam control can be handled reasonably well by limiting account creation to
those smart enough to figure out the account-creation 'password', and also by
enabled the (re)CAPTCHA support in gitit.

I don't believe the darcs wiki makes use of templates (does MoinMoin even
support templates), so gitit's current lack is not an issue.

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What *is* an issue, though, is converting MoinMoin markup to Markdown (or
optionally, RST) so the existing articles can be imported. I haven't found any
good ways of doing this despite looking.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 19:22:23 -0000, gwern wrote:
> What *is* an issue, though, is converting MoinMoin markup to Markdown (or
> optionally, RST) so the existing articles can be imported. I haven't found any
> good ways of doing this despite looking.

A Pandoc MoinMoin reader would be great!  It's a particular good idea if John
wants to get more people using gitit :-)

It ain't perfect, but I'm marking this done.
http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-June/020132.html

Thanks to Simon for the Pandoc-Moin work, and to Gwern for his filestore/gitit
work, not to mention Jason for the suggestion.