Smeagol vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Version
1.0.1
TWiki-6.1.0
2.6.0
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2018-05-24 (8 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2023-06-03 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-30 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-05-16 (29 days ago)
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
Author
Simon Brooke
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Clojure
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Javascript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone who needs a small simple wiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
Everyone
System Requirements Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Any (JVM)
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None needed
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
All
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Node.js
Datastorage Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
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.
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Development/Support Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
72 ⭐
N/A
N/A
28444 ⭐
Common Features Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Lithuanian, Russian
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, 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
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
Optional
No
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
No
Links Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JS, CSS
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Smeagol TWiki PmWiki Wiki.js
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]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/)
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[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
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
_italic_
_italic_
''italic''
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
not supported
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
`code`

or
```
code
```
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
not supported
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
not supported
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~Subscript Text~
Images
![image alt text](http://url.of.image)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
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
- 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
# 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
Definition Lists
not supported
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
not supported
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