Pepperminty Wiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Zim vs. UseMod

General Features Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.3.13
0.56
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Alex Schroeder
Jaap Karssenberg
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
family people, hackers
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Anything supporting CGI scripts
None
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)
Writable data directory
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim 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
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
n/a
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
No
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
None yet
None (use your web server instead)
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
No
Patch
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
206 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
No
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
None
Some
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
none
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Perl
None
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Usability Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Presentations
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse Zim UseMod
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
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
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
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
# Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
=== Heading ===
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`code text`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
``monospace``
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~strike~~
N/A
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
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)
{{./image.png}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
no example known
not implemented
N/A
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
indent with tabs
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* one
** two
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
not implemented
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
-------
Depending on plugins:
----
not implemented
----
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