Smeagol vs. WikkaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Version
1.0.1
1.4.2
18.9.0
Last Release Date
2018-05-24 (8 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-10-26 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-30 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-10-26 (2 days ago)
Author
Simon Brooke
Wikka Development Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2.0
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Clojure
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone who needs a small simple wiki
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Operating System
Any (JVM)
any (platform-independent)
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
None needed
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
No
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built in
Active Directory (patch)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
72 ⭐
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
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 WikkaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Lithuanian, Russian
0
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Patch
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Links Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Syntax Features Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Patch
No
Statistics Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Patch
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Patch
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Office Export
No
No
Yes
Media and Files Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
No
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Smeagol WikkaWiki XWiki
Internal Link 
[[Link within this wiki]]
 
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
 
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link 
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/)
 
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
 
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines 
# Main heading
## Second level heading
### Third level heading
 
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
 
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
**bold**
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
_italic_
 
//italic//
 
//Italics//
Underline Format 
not supported
 
__underlined__
 
__underline__
Monospace Format 
`code`

or
```
code
```
 
##monospaced##
 
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format 
~~strikethrough~~
 
++Strike through text++
 
--Strike--
Superscript Format 
not supported
 
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
 
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format 
not supported
 
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
 
,,subscript,,
Images 
![image alt text](http://url.of.image)
 
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
 
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text 
not supported
 
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
 
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation 
not supported
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists 
+ (at start of line) ordinary bulleted lists
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
 
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists 
1. (at start of line) numbered lists
 
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
 
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists 
not supported
 
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
 
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule 
not supported
 
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