Wiki-Toolkit vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Version
0.72
1.32.2
6.2.1
18.1.0
1.0
Last Release Date
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2026-02-23 (21 days ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
2026-02-23 (21 days ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
Author
Dominic Hargreaves
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL/Artistic
GPL
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Wiki Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
private users
Hosting Features Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
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 Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Operating System
Anything that runs Perl
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything with CGI support
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 5.0+
Apache
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
MySql
Datastorage Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
MariaDB
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 Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin Interface
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
0
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Output Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki-Toolkit MediaWiki WackoWiki XWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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)
[Title]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
one
two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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