Pepperminty Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. LynxWiki vs. Zim

General Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.5.5
1.3.0.0
0.56
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (2 years ago)
2026-01-10 (16 days ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (2 years ago)
2026-01-10 (16 days ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
J.W. Davidson
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
C#
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, Files
Files, RCS
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
Private users, small teams
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
Linux, Windows, OSX
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
None
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
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
n/a
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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.
MS Membership and Roles
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
205 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 Zim
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Links Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
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
No
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
None
None
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
No
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
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
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
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki LynxWiki Zim
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
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://....
[[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
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
# Headline
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
**bold text**
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
_italics_
//italic//
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-
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
'^superscript^'
superscript^234^
^{sup}
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
'_subscript_'
water: H~2~O
_{sub}
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}}
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
not implemented
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
indent with tabs
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
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
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. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
: term : definition
N/A
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
-------
----
----
not implemented
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