MediaWiki vs. Wiclear vs. WikiNi

General Features MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Version
1.45.3
1.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
2007-08-07 (19 years ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
2007-09-16 (19 years ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
private users
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
All
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache
Other Requirements
none
MySql
Datastorage MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
1
French
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
No
Patch
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Links MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Scripting
Optional
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Usability MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Optional
No
No
Output MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
No
Extras MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Title]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[Title|http://url.to/]
[[ ]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
** **
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
// //
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__ __
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
## ##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
@@ @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
; term : definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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