Pepperminty Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2023-02-17 (1 year ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (11 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (1 year ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (10 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL 2
GPL2+
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
personal, small to medium companies
All
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
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)
none
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
n/a
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None yet
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
133 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[Internal Link]]s
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
![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|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
# Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
*bold*
Italics Format
_italics_
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`code text`
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethough text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. A
2. B
3. C
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
-------
----
----
----
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