PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki

General Features PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Version
2.7.8
18.9.0
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
Last Release Date
2026-10-24 (15 days ago)
2026-10-26 (13 days ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-10-24 (15 days ago)
2026-10-26 (13 days ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
Starbeamrainbowlabs
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MPL-2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free!
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Hosting Features PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux / Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Servlet 5.0+
Anything PHP enabled
Other Requirements
none
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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 XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
n/a
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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.
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
None yet
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Optional
Development/Support PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Media and Files PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[[Internal Link]]s
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
![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
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
# Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
`code text`
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
~~strikethough text~~
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
sometext^superscript^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
sometext~subscript~
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
![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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> Blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. A
2. B
3. C
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
-------
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