Mycorrhiza Wiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki

General Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Version
1.12.1
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.10
Last Release Date
2022-09-04 (3 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2025-12-18 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2022-09-05 (3 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2025-12-18 (2 months ago)
Author
bouncepaw et al.
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
MPL-2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Go
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small communities and individuals
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Operating System
UNIX (tested on Linux and macOS, should work on BSD), might work on Plan 9. and Windows
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Optional
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
Git
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)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Other
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, Telegram
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
368 ⭐
207 ⭐
118 ⭐
Common Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Russian
1
English
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Titles only
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
No
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Links Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
CamelCase
No
Unknown
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Optional
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Possible to embed JS
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Usability Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
Media and Files Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
No
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link | display text]]
[[wp>Interwiki]]
=> link
=> link | display text
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[http://link]]
[[http://link | display text]]
=> http://link
=> http://link | display text
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= h2
== h3
=== h4
==== h5
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold text**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
_italics_
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`monospace`
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
img { 
image
}
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* like that
** nesting
* here
* {
multiline

entries
}
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
*. like that
**. nesting
*. here
*. {
multiline

entries
}
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
-------
---
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