WackoWiki vs. XWiki vs. Corendal Wiki vs. Wiclear

General Features WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Version
6.2.1
18.1.0
3.0.2
1.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2026-02-23 (21 days ago)
2010-04-23 (15 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2026-02-23 (21 days ago)
2010-04-23 (15 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Thierry Danard
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Corporate
private users
Hosting Features WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki 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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Operating System
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Unix / Windows
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 5.0+
Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server
Apache
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Java 5.0
MySql
Datastorage WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
MariaDB
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 WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory or Local Accounts
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
56 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, 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
1
English
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Output WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
No
Extras WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki XWiki Corendal Wiki Wiclear
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[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 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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