Zim vs. Oddmuse vs. Pepperminty Wiki

General Features Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Version
0.56
2.3.13
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Alex Schroeder
Starbeamrainbowlabs
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
MPL-2.0
Programming Language
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
Free!
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
family people, hackers
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
System Requirements Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Anything supported by Perl
Linux / Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Anything PHP enabled
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Writable data directory
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 Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
No
n/a
Security/Anti-Spam Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
File permissions
None (use your web server instead)
None yet
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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207 ⭐
Common Features Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Interface Languages
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
HTML Tags
None
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
Perl
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Statistics Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
No
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zim Oddmuse Pepperminty Wiki
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
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
[[Internal Link]]s
External Link
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
Headlines
=== Heading ===
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
# Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
``monospace``
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`code text`
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
~~strikethough text~~
Superscript Format
^{sup}
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
sometext^superscript^
Subscript Format
_{sub}
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
sometext~subscript~
Images
{{./image.png}}
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
not implemented
no example known
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> Blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* one
** two
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
Numbered Lists
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. A
2. B
3. C
Definition Lists
not implemented
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
Depending on plugins:
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