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MoinMoin
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Straightforward installation
You'll need Apache and Python set up. To install MoinMoin itself download the archive, open it and run setup.py from the command line.
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Attachment history isn't tracked
While it supports attachments, if an attachment is deleted, it's gone.
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Portable version
There's a Portable version of MoinMoin that can be used without having to install it.
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Can't limit attachment size
There's no way to set a limit on attachment sizes.
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Users can create personal bookmarks
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Functionality can be extended with plugins
A selection of plugins is available at MoinMoinExtensions.
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Offline sync
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Global recent changes RSS feed
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Integrates with Xapian to allow searching through files
Xapian integration will allow searching through PDF, OpenOffice, Word, etc attachments.
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Full-text search
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Reasonable selection of themes
A few dozen themes are available for MoinMoin on the ThemeMarket, allowing you to quickly change the look and feel of the wiki.
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Version control
MoinMoin allows viewing past revisions of pages.
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Free and open source
Licensed under GPL v2.
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WackoWiki Markup
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Human-readable
Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
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Allows adding custom elements
One can add actions, handlers and fromatters so it's not just about static markup
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Supports namespaces
It allows pages to be divided among "directories / namespaces" using forward slashes.
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AsciiDoc
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Standardized format
The formatting of Asciidoc is standardized so there is only one 'flavor' unlike in Markdown. The definitive user guide is here.
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Not as popular/widely used as Markdown
The Asciidoc format is not as popular/widely used as Markdown. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Asciidoc is used for some of the following projects: O'Reilly and Maker Press NFJS, the magazine other examples
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Human-readable
Simple, easy-to-read style similar to Markdown. Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
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Limited output options
Asciidoctor can only convert directly to HTML or DocBook. However, you can always use another converter such as pandoc to convert from one of the output formats to another format.
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Technical Documentation
The DocBook format which Asciidoctor can convert to was originally developed with the creation of computer books in mind and thus has a rich array of formatting options which are powerful enough to manage the formatting of lengthy technical books.
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Supported by GitHub and GitLab
Both GitHub and GitLab support AsciiDoc syntax in repositories, wikis and Gists/Snippets (powered by the Asciidoctor Ruby gem).
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It's structured
Cleanly transforms to DocBook and HTML5.
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Supports semantic markup
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Native support for colored output
AsciiDoc has offered the ability to define both the color of any text output as well as its background, almost since its inception. It accepts several standard chromatic notations for them, too, including hexadecimal and decimal RGB values, decimal HSL and named CSS.
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Shorter, more concise than Markdown
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Embedded metadata
The AsciiDoc standard defines a number of metadata values which can be defined inside a document primarily for contextual purposes that aren't rendered in its standard output such as author, date, license, document title and version, etc. These can be especially useful when searching through a large number of files/documents or documenting the evolution of one as part of a larger codebase.
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Good tool support
There are plugins to support editing AsciiDoc for many editors/IDEs.
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Org-mode
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Very flexible
Org-mode is characterized by a flexible and versatile system with adaptability to different workflows, making it comparable as an Evernote alternative. It is at once simple and complex., which helps it to compete as an Evernote alternative.
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Difficult to learn
Org-mode has a difficult learning curve since you have to learn all the keybindings and commands. It's especially difficult if you are not used to Emacs.
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Built-in agenda
Org-mode has some built-in agenda functionality. You can schedule tasks and assign various degrees of importance to each of them. Org-mode agenda can also be synced with Google Calendar.
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Versioning can be tracked and synced using Git or other VCS
Org files are plain text, and lend themselves well to version control. Emacs also has good integrations for various VCS.
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Great sync support
Notes and to-dos can be synced with Trello, Toodledo, Simplenote, Orgmobile, or with tools like Git on Github, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Bitbucket, while WebDAV (with iOS and Android) can also be exported to PDF, mind map, LaTeX, HTML, Docbook, or txt.
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Basic spreadsheet functionality
Org-mode has some basic spreadsheet functionality. Other than auto-formatting ASCII tables (a notoriously annoying problem), it also has support for LISP-like syntax to define equations or any other functionality that can be achieved through spreadsheets.
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Out-of-the-box Latex support
Org-mode has out-of-the-box support for Latex: it can immediately parse equations (or other Latex markup) and can even compile notes to PDF or HTML.
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reStructuredText
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Human-readable
reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system.
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Setup can be tedious
If you prefer Python to stay out of the way so that you can focus on the task you are doing, you will find that overall Python just asserts itself far to much.
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Technical documentation
Without any adjustments RST has many facilities for writing technical documentation (API docs, syntax highlighting code, embed code from source files).
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Parsing from Python
Python's docutils include a parser for RestructuredText.
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Extensible
Generators such as Sphinx allow you to define your own custom roles, directives and output generators.
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It's standardized
There's only one standard to adhere to - no "flavors".
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Large collections of themes available
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Markdown
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Lacks a coherent standard
Lacks a coherent standard, just many semi-compatible dialects (MultiMarkdown, etc). This inconsistency can cause problems if the person writing the Markdown is using a different dialect from the one that will be used to render it.
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Human-readable
Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
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Bad support for table
It has poor support for table, while table is an important part of article.
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Widely used
Markdown is quickly becoming the writing standard for academics, scientists, writers, and many more. Websites like GitHub and reddit use Markdown to style their comments.
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Bad support for larger documents
Works good for single file documents like READMEs. Lack support for cross-references, TOCs, document index etc.
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De facto standard
Markdown is ubiquitous. It's supported by nearly everything. The markup available in the common subset of all the many dialects isn't that rich, but it's usually enough to get the job done.
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It doesn't support semantic markup
It's unstructured.
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Multi-directional
You can convert HTML to Markdown or Markdown to HTML. You can use tools like pandoc to convert to other formats as well.
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Revision friendly
It is easy to track changes for markdown documents as compared to other formats like doc, html, etc. You only need to place your markdown documents under some version control system.
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DokuWiki
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Easy to set up and mantain
To install you need a webserver running PHP 5.2 or later where you unpack the downloaded archive and navigate to install.php in your browser, fill out the necessary information required for the one-page installer and you are done.
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Lots of plugins to manage
DokuWiki is highly modular. Even thing like WYSIWYG editors and categories have to be added separately as plugins. This can quickly lead to managing lots of plugins.
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Local and open source
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Plain-text file storage
Dokuwiki does not require a database, it stores everything in plain-text.
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Version control
Dokuwik offers unlimited page revisions.
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Access control
DokuWiki has built-in ACL support.
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Runs on any PHP server
It requires a webserver running PHP 5.2 or later of any kind.
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A dedicated page for recent changes
A dedicated page to quickly note what has changed recently can be set up.
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Search functionality
DokuWiki allows searching through pages.
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Very last, consuming very few Local
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Good selection of plugins
DokuWiki offers over a thousand plugins to extend its functionality.
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Good selection of themes
DokuWiki offers over a hundred templates to change the visual appearance of the site.
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LaTeX
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Lets you focus on the content
LaTeX handles the design so you can focus on the content
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Steep learning curve
LaTeX is not what you'd consider easy to use, and while there's plenty of documentation out there, much of it is rather opaque unless you're a seasoned TeXnician.
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High-quality typesetting by default
There's a reason that scholarly journals often require the use of LaTeX for articles printed in their pages, and it's because the quality of the output is that good. Universities often require, or at least encourage, the use of LaTeX for graduate theses and dissertations for this same reason.
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Single-threaded design
LaTeX is single-threaded by design, since it must necessarily work sequentially to produce each page as it is laid out by the typesetting engine. This makes it dependent on the power of just one individual core in your multi-core computer setup and so migrating to a machine with more cores won't necessarily make your LaTeX documents build faster.
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Free open source software
Licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License
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Not a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor
LaTeX uses the paradigm what-you-see-is-what-you-mean instead.
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Editor-independent
You can edit LaTeX sources in any text editor.
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Cross-platform
Works on every major OS and gives exactly the same quality output everywhere you go. LaTeX on macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, and even Mac OS 9 has exactly the same output for a given set of sources.
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Effortless math input
The whole reason that TeX -- and, by extension, LaTeX -- exists is to give people an easy way (well, for some value of "easy") to produce high-quality documents with properly laid out mathematical expressions and text in them. As long as you know the language (or have a reference sheet handy), you can include mathematical expressions in your document with little to no extra effort needed on your part.
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MediaWiki
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The de facto standard
Mediawiki is a widely used wiki engine. It is used to power Wikipedia and thus most people will be more comfortable/accustomed to using MediaWiki.
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Access control requires an extension
There is no built-in access control, but you can download an extension for ACL.
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It has a powerful templating system
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Free and open source
Licensed under GPL.
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Version control
MediaWiki allows viewing past revisions of pages.
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It has a usable WYSIWYG editor
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Thanks to Wikipedia it is thoroughly documented
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Runs on any PHP server
It requires a webserver running PHP 5.2 or later of any kind.
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Great multilingual support
MediaWiki has full support for over 65 languages and partial support for over 300.
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Multiple database support
MediaWiki can store data in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQLite databases.
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