Oddmuse vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. Hatta

General Features Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Version
2.3.13
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.11
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
Free!
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
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)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Mercurial
Datastorage Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
No
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
n/a
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
206 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Links Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Perl
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Usability Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Statistics Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
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
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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
![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]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold text**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
Images
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)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
no example known
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
n/a
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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