Smeagol vs. Foswiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Version
1.0.1
2.1.10
2.5.5
Last Release Date
2018-05-24 (7 years ago)
2025-12-18 (1 month ago)
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-30 (7 years ago)
2025-12-18 (1 month ago)
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
Author
Simon Brooke
Foswiki Community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Clojure
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone who needs a small simple wiki
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
All
System Requirements Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Operating System
Any (JVM)
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
None needed
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built in
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Development/Support Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
72 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Links Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Syntax Examples Smeagol Foswiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[Link within this wiki]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
# Main heading
## Second level heading
### Third level heading
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
not supported
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
`code`

or
```
code
```
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
not supported
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
not supported
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
![image alt text](http://url.of.image)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
not supported
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
not supported
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
+ (at start of line) ordinary bulleted lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
not supported
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
not supported
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