Pepperminty Wiki vs. Oddmuse vs. UseMod vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.3.13
1.2.2
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Alex Schroeder
Clifford Adams
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
family people, hackers
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
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)
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
n/a
No
No
no
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None yet
None (use your web server instead)
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
nofollow
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
206 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Patch
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Perl
None
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Usability Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Optional
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Office Export
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
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)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
# Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
_italics_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
optional or via css
Monospace Format
`code text`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
N/A
optional or via css
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
http://url.com/pic.gif
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
no example known
N/A
optional or via css
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;Term:Definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
-------
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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