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Add to SafariWhen comparing reStructuredText vs MediaWiki, the Slant community recommends reStructuredText for most people. In the question“What are the best markup languages?” reStructuredText is ranked 5th while MediaWiki is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose reStructuredText is:
reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Human-readable
reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system.
Pro Technical documentation
Without any adjustments RST has many facilities for writing technical documentation (API docs, syntax highlighting code, embed code from source files).
Pro Parsing from Python
Python's docutils include a parser for RestructuredText.
Pro Extensible
Generators such as Sphinx allow you to define your own custom roles, directives and output generators.
Pro It's standardized
There's only one standard to adhere to - no "flavors".
Pro Large collections of themes available
Pro 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.
Pro It has a powerful templating system
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under GPL.
Pro Version control
MediaWiki allows viewing past revisions of pages.
Pro It has a usable WYSIWYG editor
Pro Thanks to Wikipedia it is thoroughly documented
Pro Runs on any PHP server
It requires a webserver running PHP 5.2 or later of any kind.
Pro Great multilingual support
MediaWiki has full support for over 65 languages and partial support for over 300.
Pro Multiple database support
MediaWiki can store data in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQLite databases.
Cons
Con 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.
Con Access control requires an extension
There is no built-in access control, but you can download an extension for ACL.
