XWiki vs. Wiclear vs. XoWiki

General Features XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
Version
18.6.0
1.0
0.113
Last Release Date
2026-07-27 (3 days ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
David Jobet
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
private users
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Hosting Features XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
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 XoWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
All
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache
AOLServer
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
MySql
Datastorage XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
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 XoWiki
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
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
# 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 XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
No
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Not at the moment
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Unknown
Statistics XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
No
Unknown
XML export
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
No
Unknown
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Extras XWiki Wiclear XoWiki
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 XoWiki
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]
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
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
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
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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