Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. Hatta vs. UseMod

General Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.11
1.6.6
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
Radomir Dopieralski
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, probably anything with CGI 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
Mercurial
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
No
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
n/a
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Patch
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
206 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
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
No
No
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
No
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Links Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Some
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Usability Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta UseMod
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
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]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
**bold text**
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
_italic_
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
n/a
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{verbatim}}}
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
N/A
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
n/a
N/A
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
* 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
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
n/a
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
-------
---
----
----
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