Zim vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
Version
0.56
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
MPL-2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free!
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
family people, hackers
System Requirements Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Linux / Windows
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
None
Anything PHP enabled
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
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 Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
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
n/a
No
Security/Anti-Spam Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
File permissions
None yet
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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89 ⭐
Common Features Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
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
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Plugin
Links Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Tables
none
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Perl
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Usability Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
Statistics Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
No
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Optional
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Zim Pepperminty Wiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
[[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
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
![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
=== Heading ===
# Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
_italics_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
``monospace``
`code text`
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
~~strikethough text~~
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^{sup}
sometext^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
_{sub}
sometext~subscript~
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
{{./image.png}}
![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)
Aligning Text
not implemented
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
no example known
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
> Blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

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

# one
## two
Definition Lists
not implemented
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
-------
Depending on plugins:
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