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About MoinMoin

A wiki that keeps every page as a plain file on disk tends to outlive the team that installed it. MoinMoin needs no database, so there is nothing to migrate, nothing to back up separately and no operational reason for anyone to notice it for years at a stretch. The result is a population of installations that are not maintained so much as inherited.

Written in Python and released under GPL v2, MoinMoin dates to 2000, which places its origins in the first generation of web wikis, well before hosted documentation services existed. As of October 2026 we see it answering on 21 sites.

Version data is where the inheritance shows. We hold 6 distinct versions across a footprint this small, and where a version string is visible at all it is usually 1.9.8, a release from a line the project has since moved past. A hosted service would report one version, because the vendor controls the upgrade and nobody else gets a vote. A file-on-disk wiki reports a spread, because every upgrade is somebody's afternoon and somebody has to decide it is worth the afternoon.

What the fingerprint tells you about a host is mostly organisational. Wiki engines of this kind were adopted by engineering groups, Linux distributions, research departments and standards bodies, the sort of places that wanted their documentation under their own control and their own login. A domain still serving one is a domain where a decision taken long ago was never revisited, and the consequences follow: web software that has not been patched in a long time, content nobody has curated since the people who wrote it left, and internal vocabulary exposed to search engines by accident.

Two audiences buy a list like this. Security researchers want the aging self-hosted software, because a wiki with an editable page, a file store and an old codebase is a well understood exposure and a predictable one. Vendors of documentation platforms want the migration candidates, and an engine with no company standing behind it makes an unusually clean approach, since there is no incumbent account manager to displace and no contract to wait out.

The count understates the installed base for a reason particular to wikis. A large part of the population sits on intranets, on subdomains nothing public links to, or behind a login that returns nothing useful to a crawler, and none of that is reachable by the method we use. What we can offer instead is the publicly answering set, dated to the crawl and repeatable against the next one, so that the direction of travel means something even where the absolute number cannot.