GWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
Version
2.4.0
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.8
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2023-02-17 (1 year ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2023-02-19 (1 year ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
Free!
$0
free
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
family people, hackers
System Requirements GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything supporting CGI scripts
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
Writable data directory
Datastorage GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
Google Datastore
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
No
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
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
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
133 ⭐
97 ⭐
67 ⭐
Common Features GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
No
Media and Files GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
[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]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
**bold text**
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
_italics_
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[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"}%
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
-------
---
Depending on plugins:
----
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