That's not how I remember it. From what I remember the objection from Duane wrt Kinkies wiki was more of a control and backup issue. docuwiki was selected by Duane as it's trivial to back up, and additionally the back-end content isn't hard to reuse for other purposes later on.
I'm happy for Kinkie to host the officialk wiki. I would prefer it to be "wiki.squid-cache.org". I agree Moin looks nicer on the outside. dokuwiki was pretty easy to set up, but it lacks nice features. I did like that it used plain text files which meant that we could store changes in CVS, but thats minor I guess.
