XWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki

General Features XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Version
18.8.0
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
Last Release Date
2026-09-29 (17 days ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-30 (16 days ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Starbeamrainbowlabs
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MPL-2.0
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free!
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Hosting Features XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux / Windows
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Anything PHP enabled
Other Requirements
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 XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Other
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 XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
None yet
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Development/Support XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Links XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Scripting
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
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
No
Media and Files XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Extras XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Pepperminty Wiki
Internal Link
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
[[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
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
# Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold text**
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`code text`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
~~strikethough text~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
sometext^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
sometext~subscript~
Images
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
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> Blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. A
2. B
3. C
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
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