Pepperminty Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. LynxWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.0
1.3.0.0
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (2 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (2 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
J.W. Davidson
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL 2
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
C#
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
0
$0
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
small organization to enterprise
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
IIS7 or IIS8
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)
IronPython
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
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
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
n/a
None
MariaDB
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None yet
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
MS Membership and Roles
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
205 ⭐
4526 ⭐
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
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
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
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
Yes
Links Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
IronPython
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
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 LynxWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 LynxWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
Contents
Extras Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Optional
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
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://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
Headlines
# Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
//italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
+underlined+
Monospace Format
`code text`
''monospace''
##monospace##
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
superscript^234^
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
water: H~2~O
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
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.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%%
N/A
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
N/A
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
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


1. first numbered item
1. 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}
N/A
Horizontal Rule
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remove Pepperminty Wiki remove DokuWiki remove WackoWiki remove LynxWiki