Pepperminty Wiki vs. Wikidot vs. PmWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.5.8
Last Release Date
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-09 (3 days ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2026-03-09 (3 days ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Michal Frackowiak
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
AGPLv3
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
All
Hosting Features Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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.
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
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
No
Unknown
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
n/a
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
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.
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Optional
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
207 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
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
No
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
2
English, Polish
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
Plugin
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
Calendar
No
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki Wikidot PmWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
# Headline
+++ headline level 3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold text**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
//italic text//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined text__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
`code text`
{{monospaced text}}
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
--strikethrough text--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
[[image src="..."]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
= Centered line
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* element 1
* element 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
# element 1
# element 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: item : description
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
-------
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