Caveat Lector

Is there such an animal?

MediaWiki is a bloated monster, impossible to configure. I’ve spent two weeks trying and failing to coax PmWiki into doing what I need it to. MoinMoin flatly refused to install. What the hell? If this is the future, I’ll take the past, thank you.

Here’s what I need:

• Disallow anonymous editing. This is a must-have.
• Edit tracking, and easy reversion.
• A look-and-feel I can mess with. A good theme library is a big plus, because I hate messing with things.
• A sensible, usable admin interface.
• Documentation in English, not barely-literate geekese. Don’t point me to wiki-based documentation, either. Talk about things that conspicuously suck.
• An install that doesn’t break my brain. Or my webhost.

Nice to have, but not essential:

• Clean URLs.
• Clean markup.
• Written in Python.

I am really starting to be annoyed. I like working with wikis, but I had no idea administering one was such a pain in the nethers. Suggestions, anyone?