I have an application in mind, where an already existing and authenicated set of users (auth based on users in a MySQL table and on cookies) should be presented with a mixture of HumanlyWrittenMarkup :) and MachineGeneratedMarkup (e.g. from syslog and SQL selects - the results containing references to HumanlyWrittenMarkup). So I have an application, where I need different `User` and `Page` concepts.

 * What about inserting this data by using macros or processors?
  * ''Very'' good - yes I think that will solve 90% of my problem. --PeterMorch
 * One reason why no one really has done it is IMHO that there is not much real improvement
  * Not for static page names. But if the number and names of pages are determined at run-time, that is another matter, for which the presence and contents of a file are not suited. But I can see that I now create trouble with RecentChanges, page count, Searches. A HUGE job, it looks like, now I think about it. --PeterMorch
   * You perhaps can mimic the generated pages with actions (see fullsearch for an example)
 * I think OliverGraf is already working on the User refactoring

If I actually coded this, it would require modification to at least `Page.py`, `PageEdit.py` and `User.py`, but since (some of) the methods therein are static methods, it would probably also affect all callers. (Or is there some cool Python run-time import feature I could use?)

If this is something the community would consider adding to MoinMoin, I'll write the code,  but if its just for me, I'll probably end up with a patch to just the .py files...

Is this something anybody else has considered / done already? Any pointers on how this would fit into the architecture before I commence? :-D Or should this go into MoinMoinIdeas? Where exactly would be best?

 * I could imagine this as part of the 1.4 release. Be aware that there are some other functions than load and save that have to be overloaded - especially if you want to use the improved functionality of the backend (diffs, incremental backup, ...). -- PeterMorch 2004.05.17