Pepperminty Wiki vs. Hatta vs. Foswiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
1.6.6
2.1.11
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Radomir Dopieralski
Foswiki Community
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL v2
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
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
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Not required (optional backends available)
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)
Mercurial
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
A common browser
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
No
Other
n/a
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
caching of content into database using plugins
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None yet
n/a
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
206 ⭐
N/A
118 ⭐
8642 ⭐
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Links Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
All
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki Hatta Foswiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
# Headline
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
---+ 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*
''bold''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italic//
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
n/a
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`code text`
{{{verbatim}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
n/a
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
n/a
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
n/a
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
n/a
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
n/a
$ Term: Definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
-------
----
---
----
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