Pepperminty Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. LionWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.29
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (2 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2025-09-03 (3 months ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL 2
BSD
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
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)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
n/a
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None yet
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
204 ⭐
4475 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LionWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
# Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
//italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
`code text`
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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