PukiWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Oddmuse vs. UseMod vs. Foswiki

General Features PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Version
1.5.1
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.3.13
1.2.2
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-03-15 (6 months ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Alex Schroeder
Clifford Adams
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free!
free
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Operating System
OS independent
Linux / Windows
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything PHP enabled
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
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)
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
n/a
No
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
None yet
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Patch
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
No
Optional
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
206 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
118 ⭐
Common Features PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Perl
None
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Usability PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Section Editing
Patch
No
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Output PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PukiWiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod Foswiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[Internal Link]]s
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
# Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
'''italic'''
_italics_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
N/A
`code text`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
~~strikethough text~~
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
N/A
sometext^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
sometext~subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
http://url.com/pic.gif
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
no example known
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
> Blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. A
2. B
3. C
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
:term|definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
--------------------
-------
Depending on plugins:
----
----
---
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