PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. Foswiki vs. mobiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki

General Features PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Version
2.7.4
1.5.1
2.1.11
2016-06-26
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
Last Release Date
2026-07-31 (24 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-31 (24 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
Foswiki Community
Martin D�ring
Starbeamrainbowlabs
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
MIT
MPL-2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
0
Free!
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Text centric websites and mobile use
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
System Requirements PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any
Linux / Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
any
Anything PHP enabled
Other Requirements
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
PHP 5.4+
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 PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
caching of content into database using plugins
n/a
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
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.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None yet
Host Blocking
Optional
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Patch
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
118 ⭐
N/A
206 ⭐
Common Features PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
No
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
No
No
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
0
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Links PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
none
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Optional
Patch
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Output PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
File Attachments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki PukiWiki Foswiki mobiki Pepperminty Wiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[Internal Link]
[[Internal Link]]s
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
![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
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!Headline
# Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
'''italic'''
_italic_
''italics''
_italics_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underline</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
N/A
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
n/a
`code text`
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
~~strikethough text~~
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
N/A
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
sometext^superscript^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
N/A
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
sometext~subscript~
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/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
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
___
aligned text
___
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
> Blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
1. A
2. B
3. C
Definition Lists
: term : definition
:term|definition
$ Term: Definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
----
--------------------
---
---
-------
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