Wiclear vs. XWiki vs. wxWikiServer

General Features Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
Version
1.0
18.7.0
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2007-08-07 (19 years ago)
2026-08-31 (12 days ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2026-08-31 (12 days ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
Author
David Jobet
XWiki Development Team
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
PHP
Java
C++
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
NA
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End users/Desktop
Hosting Features Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
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 wxWikiServer
Operating System
All
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
Servlet 5.0+
built-in
Other Requirements
MySql
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
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
unknown
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
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
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Not at the moment
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
no
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
No
Unknown
Statistics Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiclear XWiki wxWikiServer
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)
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
[Title|http://url.to/]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
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
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
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
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* List
** list
*** list
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
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
Definition Lists
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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