Wiclear vs. giewiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Version
1.0
1.13.1
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2026-05-16 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2026-05-16 (2 months ago)
Author
David Jobet
Poul Staugaard
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
new BSD License
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
other
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
community/personal
All
System Requirements Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Operating System
All
Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
Google App Engine or SDK
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
MySql
Python 2.5
none
Datastorage Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
App Engine
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
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
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
1
English
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
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Links Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Features Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Not at the moment
JavaScript
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wiclear giewiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[Title]
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[Title|http://url.to/]
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
!Headline
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
__bold__
''Bald''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italy//
''italic''
Underline Format
__Undertow__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
{{{Courier}}}
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
'_subscript_'
Images
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
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
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* One
* Two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
# One
# Two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
; term
: description
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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