[2] Dozens of organizations use MoinMoin to run public wikis,[3] including free software projects Ubuntu, Apache, Debian, and FreeBSD.

This makes it easy to manipulate the content in a text editor on the server if necessary, including managing revisions if the wiki gets attacked by spammers.

It also uses the idea of separate parsers, e.g., for parsing the wiki syntax, and formatters, e.g., for outputting HTML code, with a SAX-like interface between the two.

[7] MoinMoin also has extensive support for access-control lists (ACL) that greatly increase its usability in a content management system (CMS).

The original MoinMoin "DesktopEdition" is significantly easier to use, because it uses a built-in Web server to display pages, requiring only Python to be installed on the host machine.