MoinMoin vs. Foswiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki

General Features MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
Version
1.9.11
2.1.11
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
Last Release Date
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (27 days ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2026-03-15 (27 days ago)
2023-02-19 (3 years ago)
Author
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Foswiki Community
Starbeamrainbowlabs
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
MPL-2.0
Programming Language
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
Free!
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
System Requirements MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux / Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Anything PHP enabled
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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 MoinMoin Foswiki 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
No
Yes
No
Other
No
caching of content into database using plugins
n/a
Security/Anti-Spam MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None yet
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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206 ⭐
Common Features MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Links MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, see comment ---------------->
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Usability MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
No
Media and Files MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoinMoin Foswiki Pepperminty Wiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[Internal Link]]s
External Link
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
# Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italic_
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`monospaced`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
`code text`
Strikethrough Format
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strikethough text~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
sometext^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
sometext~subscript~
Images
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Text Indentation
indented text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
> Blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. A
2. B
3. C
Definition Lists
term:: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
-----
------
---
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