Wicked vs. XWiki vs. Wiclear vs. MediaWiki

General Features Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
Version
2.0.8
18.9.0
1.0
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2017-09-21 (9 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
2007-08-07 (19 years ago)
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (8 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
2007-09-16 (19 years ago)
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
Author
The Horde Project
XWiki Development Team
David Jobet
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
private users
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
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 Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
Operating System
Any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
All
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Servlet 5.0+
Apache
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
MySql
none
Datastorage Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
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
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Scripting
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Not at the moment
Optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Optional
Output Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wicked XWiki Wiclear MediaWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a 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)
[Title]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Title|http://url.to/]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
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))
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* List
** list
*** list
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term
: definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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