When comparing MoinMoin vs Markdown, the Slant community recommends Markdown for most people. In the question“What are the best markup languages?” Markdown is ranked 2nd while MoinMoin is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Markdown is:
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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Pros
Pro 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.
Pro Portable version
There's a Portable version of MoinMoin that can be used without having to install it.
Pro Users can create personal bookmarks
Pro Functionality can be extended with plugins
A selection of plugins is available at MoinMoinExtensions.
Pro Offline sync
Pro Global recent changes RSS feed
Pro Integrates with Xapian to allow searching through files
Xapian integration will allow searching through PDF, OpenOffice, Word, etc attachments.
Pro Full-text search
Pro 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.
Pro Version control
MoinMoin allows viewing past revisions of pages.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under GPL v2.
Pro Human-readable
Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Cons
Con Attachment history isn't tracked
While it supports attachments, if an attachment is deleted, it's gone.
Con Can't limit attachment size
There's no way to set a limit on attachment sizes.
Con 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.
Con Bad support for table
It has poor support for table, while table is an important part of article.
Con Bad support for larger documents
Works good for single file documents like READMEs.
Lack support for cross-references, TOCs, document index etc.
Con It doesn't support semantic markup
It's unstructured.