Smeagol vs. DokuWiki vs. GWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Version
1.0.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
2.4.0
18.6.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2018-05-24 (8 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2018-06-15 (8 years ago)
2026-07-27 (2 days ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-30 (7 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2026-07-28 (1 day ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Simon Brooke
Andreas Gohr
Roger Rene Kommer
XWiki Development Team
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2.0
GPL 2
Apache License, Version 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Clojure
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
Database, RCS
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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Any (JVM)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None needed
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
All Java Servlet Container, included
Servlet 5.0+
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
None
Java 1.8+
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
None
Google Datastore
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
No
Security/Anti-Spam Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built in
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal and external with adapter
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
72 ⭐
4693 ⭐
7 ⭐
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 XWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Patch
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Statistics Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
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
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Output Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Office Export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Media and Files Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples Smeagol DokuWiki GWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[Link within this wiki]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*Bold Format*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
_Italic format_
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
not supported
__underlined__
+Unterlined+
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
`code`

or
```
code
```
''monospace''
{{Monospace}}
##monospace##
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
-StrikeThrough-
--Strike--
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
not supported
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
not supported
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
![image alt text](http://url.of.image)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
not supported
Plugin
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
not supported
N/A
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
+ (at start of line) ordinary bulleted lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* List
** list
*** list
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. (at start of line) numbered lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
not supported
Plugin
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term
: definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
not supported
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