Wiclear vs. UseMod vs. XWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
Version
1.0
1.2.2
18.3.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-04-27 (28 days ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-04-28 (27 days ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
David Jobet
Clifford Adams
XWiki Development Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any
Hosting Features Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
All
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
MySql
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
No
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
0
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
No
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Links Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Not at the moment
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Extras Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiclear UseMod XWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[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)
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[Title|http://url.to/]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
N/A
--Strike--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
Images
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
http://url.com/pic.gif
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
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
N/A
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# list
Definition Lists
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
;Term:Definition
; term
: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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