GWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. Instiki

General Features GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Version
2.4.0
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.8
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2023-02-17 (1 year ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2023-02-19 (1 year ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
MPL-2.0
GPL
Ruby's
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
Free!
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
general, education
System Requirements GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
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)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
Google Datastore
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
133 ⭐
97 ⭐
478 ⭐
Common Features GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
1
English
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Links GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
CamelCase
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Usability GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold text**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_Italic format_
_italics_
_italic_
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
<u>underline</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
$ Term: Definition
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
-------
---
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