Mycorrhiza Wiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Version
1.12.1
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.5.8
2.1.10
Last Release Date
2022-09-04 (3 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-09 (1 day ago)
2025-12-18 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2022-09-05 (3 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-09 (1 day ago)
2025-12-18 (2 months ago)
Author
bouncepaw et al.
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
MPL-2.0
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Go
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small communities and individuals
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Operating System
UNIX (tested on Linux and macOS, should work on BSD), might work on Plan 9. and Windows
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Optional
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
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)
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
n/a
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, Telegram
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
368 ⭐
207 ⭐
N/A
118 ⭐
Common Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Russian
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
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
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Search
Titles only
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Possible to embed JS
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)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Mycorrhiza Wiki Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link | display text]]
[[wp>Interwiki]]
=> link
=> link | display text
[[Internal Link]]s
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= h2
== h3
=== h4
==== h5
# Headline
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold text**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//italic//
_italics_
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`monospace`
`code text`
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
~~strikethough text~~
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
sometext^superscript^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
sometext~subscript~
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
img { 
image
}
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<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
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
*. like that
**. nesting
*. here
*. {
multiline

entries
}
1. A
2. B
3. C
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
-------
----
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