Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.11
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
None
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
206 ⭐
118 ⭐
4606 ⭐
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
![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|With a Title]]
Headlines
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold text**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
-------
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