Pepperminty Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Hatta

General Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.7.3
1.5.1
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-07-26 (3 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-07-26 (3 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
Radomir Dopieralski
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 v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
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
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
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
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, 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.
Mercurial
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
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
Optional
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)
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
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.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
n/a
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Patch
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
206 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
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
No
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Links Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
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)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Optional
Patch
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki PukiWiki Hatta
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]]
[[link]]
[[link|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]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
# Headline
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
**bold text**
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
n/a
Monospace Format
`code text`
@@monospace@@
N/A
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
n/a
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
'^superscript^'
N/A
n/a
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
'_subscript_'
N/A
n/a
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
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
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
n/a
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
n/a
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
* list
** sublist
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
n/a
Definition Lists
: term : definition
:term|definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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