| General Features | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0.1
|
2.1.11
|
2.5.299
|
| Last Release Date |
2018-05-24 (8 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
|
2023-06-03 (3 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-10-30 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-15 (2 months ago)
|
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
|
| Author |
Simon Brooke
|
Foswiki Community
|
Nicolas Giard
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL 2.0
|
GPL
|
AGPL-v3
|
| Programming Language |
Clojure
|
Perl
|
Javascript
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, Files, other, RCS
|
| 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
|
Everyone
|
| System Requirements | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| Operating System |
Any (JVM)
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
All
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
None needed
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
All
|
| Other Requirements |
None
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Node.js
|
| Datastorage | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Built in
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
72 ⭐
|
118 ⭐
|
28444 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 | Wiki.js |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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 |
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Not available
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Links | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| CamelCase |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
JS, CSS
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Statistics | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| Recent Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media and Files | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Smeagol | Foswiki | Wiki.js |
| Internal Link |
[[Link within this wiki]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[Link Title](/link/to/page) |
| External Link |
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/) |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org) |
| Headlines |
# Main heading ## Second level heading ### Third level heading |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
# Header 1 ## Header 2 ### Header 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
*bold* |
**Bold Text** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
_italic_ |
*Italic Text* |
| Underline Format |
not supported |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>Underline Text</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`code` or ``` code ``` |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
`Monospace Code` |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~strikethrough~~ |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
~~Strikethrough Text~~ |
| Superscript Format |
not supported |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^Superscript Text^ |
| Subscript Format |
not supported |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~Subscript Text~ |
| Images |
 |
%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 |
- Item 1 - Item 2 - Item 3 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. (at start of line) numbered lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 |
| Definition Lists |
not supported |
$ Term: Definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
not supported |
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