Smeagol vs. Wiki.js vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Version
1.0.1
2.5.299
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2018-05-23 (5 years ago)
2023-06-02 (10 months ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-30 (5 years ago)
2023-07-30 (8 months ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
Author
Simon Brooke
Nicolas Giard
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2.0
AGPL-v3
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
GPL2+
Programming Language
Clojure
Javascript
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone who needs a small simple wiki
Everyone
Individuals, private, small groups
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
All
System Requirements Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Any (JVM)
All
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
None needed
All
Not required (optional backends available)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
None
Node.js
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
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.
optional extensions available
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Development/Support Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
68 ⭐
19117 ⭐
7039 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
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
Email notification
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JS, CSS
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
No
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples Smeagol Wiki.js TiddlyWiki TWiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[Link within this wiki]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[Link outside this wiki] (http://url.goes.here/)
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**Bold Text**
''bold''
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
*Italic Text*
//italic//
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
not supported
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
`code`

or
```
code
```
`Monospace Code`
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
not supported
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
not supported
~Subscript Text~
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
![image alt text](http://url.of.image)
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
not supported
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
%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
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
not supported
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
not supported
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