Wiclear vs. XWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
1.0
18.1.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2026-02-23 (21 days ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2026-02-23 (21 days ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
David Jobet
XWiki Development Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
small + medium sites, development teams
Hosting Features Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
All
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
Servlet 5.0+
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
MySql
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
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 Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Patch
Interface Languages
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
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, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Links Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Not at the moment
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Statistics Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Optional
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
No
Yes
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiclear XWiki ErfurtWiki
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)
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[Title|http://url.to/]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underline__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
optional or via css
Images
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
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
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
optional or via css
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* List
** list
*** list
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
; term
: definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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