Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.11
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
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
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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
none
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
no
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
206 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Patch
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Links Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Optional
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Optional
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
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://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold text**
*bold*
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
_italics_
_italic_
''ialic text''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
optional or via css
Monospace Format
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
optional or via css
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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