Smeagol vs. PmWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki

General Features Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Version
1.0.1
2.6.0
2.5.299
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2018-05-24 (8 years ago)
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2023-06-03 (3 years ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-30 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
Author
Simon Brooke
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2.0
GPL2+
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
Programming Language
Clojure
PHP
Javascript
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone who needs a small simple wiki
All
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Operating System
Any (JVM)
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None needed
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
none
Node.js
Datastorage Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
None
Security/Anti-Spam Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built in
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Development/Support Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
72 ⭐
N/A
28444 ⭐
4635 ⭐
Common Features Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Lithuanian, Russian
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
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
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
Email notification
No
Optional
No
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Links Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media and Files Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
No
Syntax Examples Smeagol PmWiki Wiki.js DokuWiki
Internal Link
[[Link within this wiki]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
# Main heading
## Second level heading
### Third level heading
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**Bold Text**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italic''
*Italic Text*
//italics//
Underline Format
not supported
{+underlined+}
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
`code`

or
```
code
```
@@monospace@@
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
{-strikethrough-}
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
not supported
'^superscript^'
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
not supported
'_subscript_'
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![image alt text](http://url.of.image)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
not supported
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
Text Indentation
not supported
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
+ (at start of line) ordinary bulleted lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. (at start of line) numbered lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
not supported
: term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
not supported
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