Pepperminty Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.7.3
1.5.1
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-07-26 (3 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-07-26 (3 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (4 months ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
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
One theme, one PukiWiki
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
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
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
n/a
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
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.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
206 ⭐
N/A
N/A
118 ⭐
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Links Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
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)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Optional
Patch
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
# Headline
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold text**
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
'''italic'''
_italic_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`code text`
@@monospace@@
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
'^superscript^'
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
'_subscript_'
N/A
<sub>subscript</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
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"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
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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