Smeagol vs. Wiki.js vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Version
1.0.1
2.5.299
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2018-05-23 (6 years ago)
2023-06-02 (1 year ago)
2020-07-19 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-30 (5 years ago)
2023-07-30 (1 year ago)
2021-08-09 (3 years ago)
2019-07-19 (5 years ago)
Author
Simon Brooke
Nicolas Giard
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2.0
AGPL-v3
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Clojure
Javascript
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone who needs a small simple wiki
Everyone
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Operating System
Any (JVM)
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None needed
All
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
None
Node.js
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built in
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
68 ⭐
19117 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
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 Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Lithuanian, Russian
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Links Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JS, CSS
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Smeagol Wiki.js DokuWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[Link within this wiki]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/)
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
# Main heading
## Second level heading
### Third level heading
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**Bold Text**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
_italic_
*Italic Text*
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
not supported
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`code`

or
```
code
```
`Monospace Code`
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
not supported
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
not supported
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
![image alt text](http://url.of.image)
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
not supported
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
not supported
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
+ (at start of line) ordinary bulleted lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. (at start of line) numbered lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
not supported
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
not supported
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