XWiki vs. Wiclear vs. WikiNi

General Features XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Version
18.8.0
1.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2026-09-29 (24 days ago)
2007-08-07 (19 years ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-30 (23 days ago)
2007-09-16 (19 years ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
private users
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
All
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
MySql
Datastorage XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
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 XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
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
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
1
French
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
No
Patch
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Patch
Usability XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Statistics XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Wiclear WikiNi
Internal Link
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]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Title|http://url.to/]
[[ ]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
** **
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
// //
Underline Format
__underline__
__ __
Monospace Format
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
## ##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
@@ @@
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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