Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. Instiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Version
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.8
0.30.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2023-02-17 (1 year ago)
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2023-02-19 (1 year ago)
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
Author
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MPL-2.0
GPL
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Ruby on Rails
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free!
$0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
general, education
family people, hackers
System Requirements Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Operating System
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
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)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Writable data directory
Datastorage Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
Other
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
Security/Anti-Spam Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Development/Support Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
133 ⭐
97 ⭐
478 ⭐
67 ⭐
Common Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Links Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
None
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
No
Output Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Instiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[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]]
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
![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)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
# 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######
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
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'}
no example known
Text Indentation
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
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
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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