XWiki vs. Smeagol

General Features XWiki Smeagol
Version
18.8.0
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2026-09-29 (17 days ago)
2018-05-24 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-30 (16 days ago)
2018-10-30 (7 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Simon Brooke
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2.0
Programming Language
Java
Clojure
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Anyone who needs a small simple wiki
Hosting Features XWiki Smeagol
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Smeagol
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any (JVM)
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
None needed
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage XWiki Smeagol
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Other
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 XWiki Smeagol
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Built in
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki Smeagol
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features XWiki Smeagol
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Smeagol
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
4
German, English, Lithuanian, Russian
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
No
Links XWiki Smeagol
CamelCase
Yes
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Unknown
Backlinks
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
Yes
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki Smeagol
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability XWiki Smeagol
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics XWiki Smeagol
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output XWiki Smeagol
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
No
Media and Files XWiki Smeagol
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras XWiki Smeagol
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Smeagol
Internal Link
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)
[[Link within this wiki]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/)
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
# Main heading
## Second level heading
### Third level heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
not supported
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`code`

or
```
code
```
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
~~strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
not supported
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
not supported
Images
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
![image alt text](http://url.of.image)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
not supported
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
not supported
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
+ (at start of line) ordinary bulleted lists
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. (at start of line) numbered lists
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
not supported
Horizontal Rule
----
not supported
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