diff -urN moin-1.8.7.orig//MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py moin-1.8.7/MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py
--- moin-1.8.7.orig//MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py	2010-02-14 21:56:00.000000000 +0000
+++ moin-1.8.7/MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py	2010-03-15 23:16:46.000000000 +0000
@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@
 
     ('config_check_enabled', False, "if True, check configuration for unknown settings."),
 
-    ('default_markup', 'wiki', 'Default page parser / format (name of module in `MoinMoin.parser`)'),
+    ('default_markup', 'text_moin_wiki', 'Default page parser / format (name of module in `MoinMoin.parser`)'),
 
     ('html_head', '', "Additional <HEAD> tags, see HelpOnThemes."),
     ('html_head_queries', '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">\n',
diff -urN moin-1.8.7.orig//MoinMoin/Page.py moin-1.8.7/MoinMoin/Page.py
--- moin-1.8.7.orig//MoinMoin/Page.py	2010-02-14 21:55:58.000000000 +0000
+++ moin-1.8.7/MoinMoin/Page.py	2010-03-15 23:17:06.000000000 +0000
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@
         meta = self.meta
 
         # default is wiki markup
-        pi['format'] = self.cfg.default_markup or "wiki"
+        pi['format'] = self.cfg.default_markup or "text_moin_wiki"
         pi['formatargs'] = ''
         pi['lines'] = len(meta)
         acl = []

