Pepperminty Wiki vs. PmWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.5.3
6.1.29
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (2 years ago)
2025-11-08 (28 days ago)
2025-09-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (2 years ago)
2025-11-08 (28 days ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
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.
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
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
n/a
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
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.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
204 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
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
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
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[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://...]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
# Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
`code text`
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
'_subscript_'
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.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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
*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. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
: term : definition
{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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