Pepperminty Wiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Zim vs. Wikidot

General Features Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
6.2.1
0.56
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2012-04-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-03 (9 days ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
WackoWiki Team
Jaap Karssenberg
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
BSD
GPL
AGPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private users, small teams
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Operating System
Linux / Windows
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
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)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
n/a
MariaDB
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None yet
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
File permissions
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
207 ⭐
56 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
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
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
2
English, Polish
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
No
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Links Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
None
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
actions (PHP)
None
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
No
Office Export
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
No
Extras Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blogs
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki WackoWiki Zim Wikidot
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[[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]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
# Headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
=== Heading ===
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
//italic//
//italic text//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
`code text`
##monospace##
``monospace``
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
--strikethrough--
~~strike~~
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
,,subscript,,
_{sub}
,,subscript,,
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{./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%%
not implemented
= Centered line
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
one
two
indent with tabs
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* 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


1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# 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}
not implemented
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
-------
----
not implemented
----
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