ProWiki vs. Zim vs. Pepperminty Wiki

General Features ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Version
2.0.045
0.56
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (20 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Jaap Karssenberg
Starbeamrainbowlabs
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
MPL-2.0
Programming Language
Perl
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free!
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Private users, small teams
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
System Requirements ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux / Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
None
Anything PHP enabled
Other Requirements
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
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 ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
n/a
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
File permissions
None yet
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
No
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
Links ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
None
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
No
Usability ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Keywords
Extras ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Calendar
Yes
Yes
No
Image Galleries
No
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki Zim Pepperminty Wiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[Internal Link]]s
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
=== Heading ===
# Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
_italics_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
`code text`
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
~~strike~~
~~strikethough text~~
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^{sup}
sometext^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
_{sub}
sometext~subscript~
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
{{./image.png}}
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
not implemented
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
indent with tabs
> Blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
1. A
2. B
3. C
Definition Lists
; term: definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
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