Foswiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Version
2.1.11
2.3.13
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.7.6
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-09-18 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-09-18 (23 days ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Alex Schroeder
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
MPL-2.0
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
free
Free!
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
family people, hackers
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
All
System Requirements Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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)
none
Datastorage Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
No
n/a
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
None yet
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
89 ⭐
206 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Perl
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media and Files Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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 name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
# Headline
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold text**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`code text`
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~strikethough text~~
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
sometext^superscript^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
sometext~subscript~
'_subscript_'
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
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)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> Blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. A
2. B
3. C
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
-------
----
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