When comparing MediaWiki vs MoinMoin, the Slant community recommends MediaWiki for most people. In the question“What are the best multi-user wikis?” MediaWiki is ranked 2nd while MoinMoin is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose MediaWiki is:
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.
Specs
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Pros
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.
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.
Cons
Con Access control requires an extension
There is no built-in access control, but you can download an extension for ACL.
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.