Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. PageWork

General Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.11
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
$0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
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
Any
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
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Proprietary
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
206 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
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 PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
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
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Keywords
Extras Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki PageWork
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
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://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
**bold text**
*bold*
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
_italics_
_italic_
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
-------
---
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