Pepperminty Wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wikidot

General Features Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
WackoWiki Team
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
BSD
AGPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Operating System
Linux / Windows
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
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)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Text Files
Yes
No
Unknown
MySQL
No
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Other
n/a
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None yet
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
207 ⭐
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
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
No
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
English, Polish
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
actions (PHP)
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Office Export
No
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Calendar
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
Blogs
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Wikidot
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
External Link
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
# Headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
//italic text//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
`code text`
##monospace##
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
= Centered line
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
one
two
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* element 1
* element 2
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
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