XWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. Wiclear

General Features XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Version
18.9.0
1.5.11c
1.0
Last Release Date
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2007-08-07 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2007-09-16 (19 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Ryan Norton
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL2
Programming Language
Java
C++
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
NA
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End users/Desktop
private users
Hosting Features XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
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 wxWikiServer Wiclear
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
All
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
built-in
Apache
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
MySql
Datastorage XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
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 wxWikiServer Wiclear
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
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
# 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 wxWikiServer Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
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
1
English
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
no
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
No
Statistics XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras XWiki wxWikiServer Wiclear
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 wxWikiServer Wiclear
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)
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[Title]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
**bold**
''' bold text '''
__bold__
Italics Format
//Italics//
'' italic text ''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
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
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
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
* List
** list
*** list
* one
* two
* two.1
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
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
#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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