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I was more than half joking about this before, but the more I look at wiki engines, the more I like UseMod, and its feature-full (but more cluttered!) derivative, OddMuse.
However, OddMuse doesn’t have plugins. And OOP in Perl is atrocious, which probably makes a good plugin system harder to do. By contrast, Python seems to be the favored language these days.
So, maybe someday we should just translate OddMuse to Python! After a straight translation, we could add a plugin system. Preferably with a MoinMoin plugin compatibility option.
I’m not going to do this soon; I don’t even know Python right now! And I think we should do InterWiki:ModularWiki first. But someday in the far future…
Hi Bayle! I try to avoid pages like this one on this wiki, but that’s okay. 
(I try to keep it more reference-text-ish, somewhere between CommunityWiki:CommunalWiki and CommunityWiki:HardWiki.)
Yes, I totally sympathize. I love OddMuse, and I wish it were in Python. But work on the IntComm:OneBigSoup is holding me back from that kind of thing right now.
In the far future, who knows what the landscape will look like. But, if it’s still around, and we still want to do it, count me in.
– LionKimbro 2004-05-01
I wonder what gave the impression of being “cluttered” – specially comparing Oddmuse to Usemod! Anyway, my trivial extension mechanism seems to work well, Oddmuse now has dozens of extensions.
Oh, I didn’t notice that you had an extension mechanism! sorry.
as for “cluttered”, there’s just a few more controls on each page on CommunityWiki compared to MeatballWiki. I actually haven’t installed a clean OddMuse myself, so I don’t know if that’s by default or not.