Wala Wiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Oddmuse vs. UseMod

General Features Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Version
1.1.7
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.3.13
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2026-03-13 (6 months ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Alex Schroeder
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
Free!
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
family people, hackers
System Requirements Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Linux / Windows
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Anything PHP enabled
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
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
Datastorage Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
diffs
n/a
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
None yet
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Patch
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
206 ⭐
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
CamelCase
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Perl
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Usability Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Statistics Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
File Attachments
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse UseMod
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[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
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
![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
Headlines
= headline =
# Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italicized''
_italics_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
monospaced.
`code text`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
N/A
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
![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
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
no example known
N/A
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
> Blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
1. A
2. B
3. C
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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