Wiclear vs. LynxWiki vs. giewiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.0
1.3.0.0
1.13.1
18.5.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2011-07-21 (15 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
David Jobet
J.W. Davidson
Poul Staugaard
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
Apache License 2.0
new BSD License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
C#
Python
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
other
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
small organization to enterprise
community/personal
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
All
Windows
Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
IIS7 or IIS8
Google App Engine or SDK
Servlet 5.0+
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
MySql
IronPython
Python 2.5
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Datastorage Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
App Engine
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
Google accounts
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
1
English
1
English
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Links Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
Not at the moment
IronPython
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Statistics Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiclear LynxWiki giewiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
[Title]
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
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)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[Title|http://url.to/]
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
!Headline
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold*
'''bold'''
''Bald''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
//Italy//
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
+underlined+
__Undertow__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
{{{Courier}}}
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Sorry--
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
256^^2^^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
Sub~~script~~
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
N/A
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* One
* Two
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1. first numbered item
1. second item
# One
# Two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
N/A
; term
: description
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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