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		<p>Pepperminty Wiki is a complete wiki engine contained in a single file, inspired by @am2064's <a href="https://github.com/am2064/Minty-Wiki">Minty Wiki</a>. It's open source too (under MPL-2.0), so contributions are welcome!</p>
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			<strong>No database</strong>
			Simple flat file structure that scales to millions of words and 1000s of pages, and makes for easy backups too!
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			<strong>Simple installation</strong>
			Just upload a single file to a clean directory on a PHP-enabled web server, and you're good to go!
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			<strong>Markdown syntax</strong>
			Powered by <a href="https://parsedown.org/">Parsedown</a>, familiar <a href="https://www.markdownguide.org/">Markdown</a> syntax with helpful extensions can be used to format your pages. Power users can make use of the expressive templating syntax too for ultimate composability.
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			<strong>Full-text search</strong>
			Find that obscure nugget of information easily with a performant full-text search engine <sup><a href="#footnote-fulltext-search">1</a></sup>! Ninjas can use the advanced query syntax to find even the most stubborn of pages.
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			<strong>Revision history</strong>
			Accidentally delete an important part of a page? No worries. Just check the page revision history. Limited only by the size of your hard drive!
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			<strong>File upload</strong>
			Upload images, videos, audio and more and embed them in your pages!
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			<strong>Inbuilt help page</strong>
			Confused on how to use a feature? The inbuilt dynamic help page is here to help! From Markdown extension syntax to redirect pages, the help page will show you the ropes. Moderators get love too, with extra help sections that appear on login.
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			<strong>Page lists</strong>
			Get an overview of the pages on your wiki with a page list. Tags are supported too, for easy logical categorisation of pages.
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			<strong>File upload</strong>
			Upload images, videos, audio and more and embed them in your pages!
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	<p>And more! Check out the <a href="https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/__nightdocs/02-Features.html">feature list</a> for an extended list of supported features.</p>
	<p>Don't see a feature you need? <a href="https://github.com/sbrl/Pepperminty-Wiki/issues/new">Open an issue</a>!</p>
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		<li id="footnote-fulltext-search"><strong>Full-text search:</strong> Tested on an Intel® Core™ i7-7500U with 5 million words from Wikipedia spread across 2011 pages. Average search time for a single-word query that returned ~307 results was ~110ms.</li>
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