PmWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. Hatta

General Features PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Version
2.7.4
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.11
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free!
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
none
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
Mercurial
Datastorage PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
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
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
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 yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
n/a
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
206 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
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
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Links PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
CamelCase
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Usability PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
![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]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold text**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
n/a
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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