WikiWikiWiki vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki

General Features WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Version
1.4.0
2.7.4
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
Last Release Date
2026-03-31 (4 months ago)
2026-07-31 (9 days ago)
2025-09-09 (11 months ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-31 (4 months ago)
2026-07-31 (9 days ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
Author
Min Guhong
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
Starbeamrainbowlabs
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL2+
GPL 2
MPL-2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free!
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, small to medium communities
All
personal, small to medium companies
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
System Requirements WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Operating System
Any OS running PHP 8.2+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux / Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Nginx (optional)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Anything PHP enabled
Other Requirements
PHP 8.2+; required: json, mbstring, session, hash, pcre; optional: zip, intl
none
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 WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Search/related indexes cached in JSON (auto-rebuild on stale/invalid)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
n/a
Security/Anti-Spam WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
None yet
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Development/Support WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
30 ⭐
N/A
4693 ⭐
206 ⭐
Common Features WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
2
English, Korean
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media and Files WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
File Attachments
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiWikiWiki PmWiki DokuWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Internal Link
[[Title]]
[[Title|Alias]]
[[Parent/Child]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[Internal Link]]s
External Link
<https://...>
[Text](https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
![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
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
# Headline
Bold Format
**Text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
*Text*
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
`code`
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
`code text`
Strikethrough Format
~~Text~~
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strikethough text~~
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
sometext^superscript^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
sometext~subscript~
Images
![](https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki/cherry.jpg)
(image: https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki/cherry.jpg)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![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
Plugin
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Text Indentation
> Quote
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
> Blockquote
Bulleted Lists
- Watermelon
- Melon
- Peach
- Fig
- Cherry
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
Numbered Lists
1. Watermelon
2. Melon
3. Peach
4. Fig
5. Cherry
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. A
2. B
3. C
Definition Lists
Term
: Definition
: term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
***
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----
----
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