Wicked vs. XWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. Wiclear

General Features Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Version
2.0.8
18.9.0
1.5.11c
1.0
Last Release Date
2017-09-21 (9 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2007-08-07 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (8 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2007-09-16 (19 years ago)
Author
The Horde Project
XWiki Development Team
Ryan Norton
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
Java
C++
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
NA
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End users/Desktop
private users
Hosting Features Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer 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 Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Operating System
Any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Servlet 5.0+
built-in
Apache
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
MySql
Datastorage Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
unknown
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
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
1
English
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
no
Not at the moment
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Unknown
No
Statistics Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
No
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wicked XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
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)
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[Title]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''' bold text '''
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
'' italic text ''
''italic''
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
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
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
] centred text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* List
** list
*** list
* one
* two
* two.1
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term
: definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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