Pepperminty Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Pwic.wiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.5.8
2.1.10
1.2
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-09 (1 day ago)
2025-12-18 (2 months ago)
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-09 (1 day ago)
2025-12-18 (2 months ago)
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Foswiki Community
Team Pwic.wiki
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL2+
GPL
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
$0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Personal, IT consultancy, Software development, Small to medium companies
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Windows, MacOS
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Stand-alone (Python aiohttp)
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
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
No
Other
n/a
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
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.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Salted password, OAuth2 (Google, Microsoft, Github), 2FA TOTP
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
207 ⭐
N/A
118 ⭐
18 ⭐
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
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
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
3
German, English, French
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Patch
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
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)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
External API for automation and bots
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
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
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki Foswiki Pwic.wiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Paragraph](#p_1_1)
[Page](/project/page)
[Attachment](/special/document/1)
External Link
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[Link](https://pwic.wiki/en)
<https://pwic.wiki/en>
Headlines
# Headline
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
# Title 1
## Title 2
### Title 3
Bold Format
**bold text**
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
_italic_
*italics*
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
--underline--
Monospace Format
`code text`
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`keyword`

```python
print('Block of code')
```
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
x<sup>2</sup> (trick)
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
x<sub>2</sub> (trick)
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![Caption](/special/document/1 "Image").
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> Block line 1
> Block line 2
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
- Item 1
- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
-------
----
---
---
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