Pepperminty Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. LionWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.5.3
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (2 years ago)
2025-11-08 (28 days ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (2 years ago)
2025-11-08 (28 days ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL2+
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
All
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
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
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
n/a
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
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.
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
204 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
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
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Links Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
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 (plugin)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LionWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
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://...]]
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
# Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
**bold text**
'''bold'''
'''bold''
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
`code text`
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
{-strikethrough-}
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
'_subscript_'
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
[path_to_img.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
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
-------
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