When comparing MoinMoin vs DokuWiki, the Slant community recommends DokuWiki for most people. In the question“What are the best multi-user wikis?” DokuWiki is ranked 1st while MoinMoin is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose DokuWiki is:
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.
Specs
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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 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.
Pro Local and open source
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Pro Plain-text file storage
Dokuwiki does not require a database, it stores everything in plain-text.
Pro Version control
Dokuwik offers unlimited page revisions.
Pro Access control
DokuWiki has built-in ACL support.
Pro Runs on any PHP server
It requires a webserver running PHP 5.2 or later of any kind.
Pro A dedicated page for recent changes
A dedicated page to quickly note what has changed recently can be set up.
Pro Search functionality
DokuWiki allows searching through pages.
Pro Very last, consuming very few Local
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Pro Good selection of plugins
DokuWiki offers over a thousand plugins to extend its functionality.
Pro Good selection of themes
DokuWiki offers over a hundred templates to change the visual appearance of the site.
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 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.