| General Features | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
|
2.5.3
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
1.3.0.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2023-02-18 (2 years ago)
|
2025-11-08 (28 days ago)
|
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
|
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2023-02-19 (2 years ago)
|
2025-11-08 (28 days ago)
|
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
|
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
Starbeamrainbowlabs
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Andreas Gohr
|
J.W. Davidson
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MPL-2.0
|
GPL2+
|
GPL 2
|
Apache License 2.0
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
C#
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
Files
|
Database, Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free!
|
0
|
0
|
$0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
|
All
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
small organization to enterprise
|
| System Requirements | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux / Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Webserver |
Anything PHP enabled
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
IIS7 or IIS8
|
| 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)
|
none
|
IronPython
|
|
| Datastorage | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
n/a
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
None
|
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
None yet
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
MS Membership and Roles
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
204 ⭐
|
N/A
|
4475 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| 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
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| CamelCase |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
Optional, PHP
|
IronPython
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Pepperminty Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | LynxWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Internal Link]]s |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
| External Link |
 |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org "Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org "this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com |
| Headlines |
# Headline |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 6 |
| Bold Format |
**bold text** |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
*bold* '''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
|
{+underlined+} |
__underlined__ |
+underlined+ |
| Monospace Format |
`code text` |
@@monospace@@ |
''monospace'' |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~strikethough text~~ |
{-strikethrough-} |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
sometext^superscript^ |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
superscript^234^ |
| Subscript Format |
sometext~subscript~ |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
water: H~2~O |
| Images |
 |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
Col1 | Col2 | Col3 -------|--------|------- this | is | a mark|down|table |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
Plugin |
N/A |
| Text Indentation |
> Blockquote |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
N/A |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item A * Item B * Item C |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
| Numbered Lists |
1. A 2. B 3. C |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
| Definition Lists |
|
: term : definition |
Plugin |
N/A |
| Horizontal Rule |
------- |
---- |
---- |
---- |
| remove Pepperminty Wiki | remove PmWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove LynxWiki |