| General Features | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0.1
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
2.4.0
|
1.4.2
|
1.45.3
|
| Last Release Date |
2018-05-24 (8 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
|
2018-06-15 (8 years ago)
|
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-10-30 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (7 months ago)
|
2018-10-16 (8 years ago)
|
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
|
| Author |
Simon Brooke
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Roger Rene Kommer
|
Wikka Development Team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL 2.0
|
GPL 2
|
Apache License, Version 2.0
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Clojure
|
PHP
|
Java
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database, Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
free
|
0
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Anyone who needs a small simple wiki
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
|
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Any (JVM)
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
|
any (platform-independent)
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
None needed
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
All Java Servlet Container, included
|
any server with PHP/MySQL support
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
None
|
Java 1.8+
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
None
|
Google Datastore
|
No
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Built in
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Internal and external with adapter
|
Active Directory (patch)
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
72 ⭐
|
4730 ⭐
|
7 ⭐
|
42 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
To current
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
4
German, English, Lithuanian, Russian |
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 |
2
German, English |
0
|
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search |
Not available
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
All
|
Some
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
|
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
|
Optional
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Smeagol | DokuWiki | GWiki | WikkaWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Link within this wiki]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[path/Page] [My Title|path/Page] |
CamelCase [[forced]] [[forced|This is a link]] [[forced |日本語]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/) |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.com] |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
# Main heading ## Second level heading ### Third level heading |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
h1. Heading 1 h2. Heading 2 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
*Bold Format* |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
_Italic format_ |
//italic// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
not supported |
__underlined__ |
+Unterlined+ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`code` or ``` code ``` |
''monospace'' |
{{Monospace}} |
##monospaced## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~strikethrough~~ |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
-StrikeThrough- |
++Strike through text++ |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
not supported |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^Superscript^ |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
not supported |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~Subscript~ |
""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
 |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png! |
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
not supported |
Plugin |
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
not supported |
N/A |
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) indented ~indented |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
+ (at start of line) ordinary bulleted lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
- Item 1 - Item 2 -- Sub Item |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~- Item 1 ~~- Item 1.1 ~- Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. (at start of line) numbered lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 # Item 2 ## Sub Item |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~1) Item 1 ~~1) Item 1.1 ~1) Item 2 (more options for lists are available) |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
not supported |
Plugin |
* Item 1 * Item 2 ** Sub Item |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
not supported |
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