Smeagol vs. TWiki vs. PmWiki vs. GWiki

General Features Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Version
1.0.1
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.33
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2018-05-23 (5 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-20 (25 days ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-30 (5 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (24 days ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Simon Brooke
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
Clojure
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
N/A
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone who needs a small simple wiki
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
All
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
System Requirements Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Operating System
Any (JVM)
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
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 w/o a webserver.
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
None
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Java 1.8+
Datastorage Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
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.
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
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.
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
68 ⭐
N/A
N/A
4 ⭐
Common Features Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Optional
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
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
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)
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
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
Plugin
Statistics Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Output Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
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
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Smeagol TWiki PmWiki GWiki
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]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/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://...]]
[http://example.com]
Headlines
# Main heading
## Second level heading
### Third level heading
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
_italic_
_italic_
''italic''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
not supported
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
`code`

or
```
code
```
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
@@monospace@@
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
not supported
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
not supported
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~Subscript~
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
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.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
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Text Indentation
not supported
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
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
-- Sub Item
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
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
not supported
$ Term: Definition
: term : definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
not supported
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