Wicked vs. Wiclear vs. PmWiki

General Features Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
Version
2.0.8
1.0
2.7.4
Last Release Date
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
2007-08-07 (19 years ago)
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
Author
The Horde Project
David Jobet
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL2
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
All
System Requirements Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
Operating System
Any
All
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
MySql
none
Datastorage Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
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
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
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 Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
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
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Links Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
No
Not at the moment
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
Calendar
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wicked Wiclear PmWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[Title]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[Title|http://url.to/]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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