| General Features | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
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2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
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2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
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| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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Starbeamrainbowlabs
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| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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MPL-2.0
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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Free!
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
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Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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Linux / Windows
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Anything PHP enabled
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| Other Requirements |
none
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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)
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
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| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
No
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| Other |
No
|
n/a
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| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
None yet
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
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| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
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| Code Repository | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel | ||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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206 ⭐
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
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| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
No
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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Unknown
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| Interface Languages |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
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Threaded
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| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Detection
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| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
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| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
No
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| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
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| Links | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Unknown
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| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
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| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Optional
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| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
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| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
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| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
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| Scripting |
Optional
|
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
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| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
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| Usability | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
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| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
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| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
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| Output | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
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| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
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| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
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| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
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| XML export |
Yes
|
No
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| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
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| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
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| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
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| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
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| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
No
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| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
No
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| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
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| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Pepperminty Wiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[Internal Link]]s |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
 |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
# Headline |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold text** |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
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| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
`code text` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
~~strikethough text~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
sometext^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
sometext~subscript~ |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
 |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
Col1 | Col2 | Col3 -------|--------|------- this | is | a mark|down|table |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
> Blockquote |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item A * Item B * Item C |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. A 2. B 3. C |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
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| Horizontal Rule |
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