PmWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. UseMod

General Features PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Version
2.7.4
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
MPL-2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free!
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
System Requirements PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
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)
Datastorage PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
n/a
No
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
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
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
No
Patch
Blacklist
Optional
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
206 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
No
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
CamelCase
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
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 :-)
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Unknown
Usability PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Optional
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki Pepperminty Wiki UseMod
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[Internal Link]]s
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)
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
# Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold text**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
`code text`
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
~~strikethough text~~
N/A
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
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)
http://url.com/pic.gif
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
N/A
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
> Blockquote
: indented
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
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. A
2. B
3. C
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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