Oddmuse vs. Foswiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Version
2.3.13
2.1.11
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Foswiki Community
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
MPL-2.0
BSD
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
$0
Free!
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux / Windows
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything PHP enabled
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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)
A common browser
Datastorage Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
No
caching of content into database using plugins
n/a
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None yet
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
118 ⭐
206 ⭐
8681 ⭐
Common Features Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
None
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Perl
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
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
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
# Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold text**
''bold''
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
_italics_
//italic//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`code text`
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strikethough text~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
sometext^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
sometext~subscript~
~~subscript~~
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> Blockquote
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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