ProWiki vs. Wiclear vs. XWiki

General Features ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Version
2.0.045
1.0
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
David Jobet
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
private users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
All
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Apache
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
none
MySql
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
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 ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Links ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Not at the moment
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples ProWiki Wiclear XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[Title]
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)
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[Title|http://url.to/]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
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
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term: definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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