DokuWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Aneuch vs. Zim

General Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.3.13
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
0.50
0.56
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2016-02-17 (10 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (6 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2016-06-28 (10 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Alex Schroeder
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Aaron Graves
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
MPL-2.0
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PERL
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
Free!
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
family people, hackers
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Any
Private users, small teams
System Requirements DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux / Windows
Any
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Anything PHP enabled
Any (only tested on Apache)
None
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
php-mbstring, php-imagick (for previews), php-fileinfo (for checking file uploads), php-intl (for unicode text normalization in the search index), `php-sqlite3` (for search index storage), and php-zip (for exporting)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
No
n/a
None
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None (use your web server instead)
None yet
Simple
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4725 ⭐
89 ⭐
206 ⭐
4 ⭐
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Links DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Features DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
none
none
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Perl
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
None
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Usability DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Statistics DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Output DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Aneuch Zim
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[Internal Link]]s
[[Page]]
[[Page|page description]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
[[http://www.google.com/]]
[[http://www.google.com/|Google]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
# Headline
= H1 =
= H1
=== H3
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_
//italic//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`code text`
`monospace`
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~strikethough text~~
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
sometext^superscript^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
sometext~subscript~
_{sub}
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
{{image.jpg}}
{{image.jpg|alt text}}
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
no example known
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
not implemented
Text Indentation
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> Blockquote
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. A
2. B
3. C
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
Plugin
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
-------
----
not implemented
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