TWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. XWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
18.4.0
1.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (4 days ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (4 days ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
private users
Hosting Features TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Apache
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
MySql
Datastorage TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
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 TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Development/Support TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Statistics TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki Oddmuse XWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
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)
[Title]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
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
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
---
Depending on plugins:
----
----
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