WikiWikiWiki vs. XWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki

General Features WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Version
1.4.0
18.9.0
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
Last Release Date
2026-03-31 (7 months ago)
2026-10-26 (13 days ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-31 (7 months ago)
2026-10-26 (13 days ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
Author
Min Guhong
XWiki Development Team
Starbeamrainbowlabs
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
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
Personal, small to medium communities
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Hosting Features WikiWikiWiki 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 WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Operating System
Any OS running PHP 8.2+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux / Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Nginx (optional)
Servlet 5.0+
Anything PHP enabled
Other Requirements
PHP 8.2+; required: json, mbstring, session, hash, pcre; optional: zip, intl
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 WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
Search/related indexes cached in JSON (auto-rebuild on stale/invalid)
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 WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
None yet
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
30 ⭐
N/A
207 ⭐
Common Features WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
2
English, Korean
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
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
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
No
Yes
No
Usability WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Statistics WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Office Export
No
Yes
No
Media and Files WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiWikiWiki XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Internal Link
[[Title]]
[[Title|Alias]]
[[Parent/Child]]
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
<https://...>
[Text](https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki)
[[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
# Headline 1
## Headline 2
### Headline 3
#### Headline 4
##### Headline 5
###### Headline 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
# Headline
Bold Format
**Text**
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
*Text*
//Italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
`code`
##monospace##
`code text`
Strikethrough Format
~~Text~~
--Strike--
~~strikethough text~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
sometext^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
sometext~subscript~
Images
![](https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki/cherry.jpg)
(image: https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki/cherry.jpg)
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Text Indentation
> Quote
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> Blockquote
Bulleted Lists
- Watermelon
- Melon
- Peach
- Fig
- Cherry
* List
** list
*** list
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
Numbered Lists
1. Watermelon
2. Melon
3. Peach
4. Fig
5. Cherry
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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