MoasdaWiki vs. GWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Instiki

General Features MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Version
3.7.1
2.4.0
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2023-12-31 (4 months ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2023-02-17 (1 year ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-01-01 (4 months ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2023-02-19 (1 year ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
Roger Rene Kommer
Starbeamrainbowlabs
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
Apache License, Version 2.0
MPL-2.0
Ruby's
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
Free
Free!
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
general, education
System Requirements MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux / Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
All Java Servlet Container, included
Anything PHP enabled
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
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)
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
No
Google Datastore
n/a
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
Internal and external with adapter
None yet
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
No
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
2
German, English
1
English
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Links MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
No
Optional
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
No
Usability MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
No
Office Export
No
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki Instiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[Internal Link]]s
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[http://example.com]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
# Headline
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
''bold''
*Bold Format*
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
##italic##
_Italic format_
_italics_
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
__underlined__
+Unterlined+
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
{{Monospace}}
`code text`
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
-StrikeThrough-
~~strikethough text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
^Superscript^
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
~Subscript~
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{image:wiki.png}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
> Blockquote
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
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