Smeagol vs. Foswiki

General Features Smeagol Foswiki
Version
1.0.1
2.1.10
Last Release Date
2018-05-24 (7 years ago)
2025-12-18 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-30 (7 years ago)
2025-12-18 (1 month ago)
Author
Simon Brooke
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Clojure
Perl
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone who needs a small simple wiki
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements Smeagol Foswiki
Operating System
Any (JVM)
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
None needed
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Smeagol Foswiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Smeagol Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built in
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Development/Support Smeagol Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
72 ⭐
118 ⭐
Common Features Smeagol Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Smeagol Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Lithuanian, Russian
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Links Smeagol Foswiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features Smeagol Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Usability Smeagol Foswiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics Smeagol Foswiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Output Smeagol Foswiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Media and Files Smeagol Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras Smeagol Foswiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Syntax Examples Smeagol Foswiki
Internal Link 
[[Link within this wiki]]
 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link 
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/)
 
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines 
# Main heading
## Second level heading
### Third level heading
 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
*bold*
Italics Format 
_italic_
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
not supported
 
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format 
`code`

or
```
code
```
 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format 
~~strikethrough~~
 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format 
not supported
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
not supported
 
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images 
![image alt text](http://url.of.image)
 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text 
not supported
 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation 
not supported
 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists 
+ (at start of line) ordinary bulleted lists
 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
1. (at start of line) numbered lists
 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists 
not supported
 
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule 
not supported
 
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