PmWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki

General Features PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Version
2.7.4
2.3.13
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
MPL-2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
Free!
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
family people, hackers
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
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)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
None (use your web server instead)
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
206 ⭐
118 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Output PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media and Files PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PmWiki Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold text**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_
_italic_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
no example known
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
-------
---
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