Pepperminty Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. LynxWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.5.3
1.3.0.0
6.1.29
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (2 years ago)
2025-11-08 (28 days ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2025-09-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (2 years ago)
2025-11-08 (28 days ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
J.W. Davidson
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
All
small organization to enterprise
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
IIS7 or IIS8
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
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
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
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.
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
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.
MS Membership and Roles
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
204 ⭐
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
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
No
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
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
1
English
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
None
All
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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)
IronPython
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Optional
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
# Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold text**
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
_italics_
//italics//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
+underlined+
__underline__
Monospace Format
`code text`
@@monospace@@
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
{-strikethrough-}
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
'^superscript^'
superscript^234^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
'_subscript_'
water: H~2~O
vvsubscriptvv
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
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
N/A
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
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. first numbered item
1. second item
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
: term : definition
N/A
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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