Wiclear vs. MediaWiki vs. Wicked vs. PhpWiki vs. TracWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Version
1.0
1.32.2
2.0.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.11.5
16.2.0
Last Release Date
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
David Jobet
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
The Horde Project
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Edgewall Software
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Modified BSD license
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Software development teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Operating System
All
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
Any with PHP support
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
MySql
none
Text_Wiki from PEAR
various opt. helpers
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
No
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
0
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 MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
25 different backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
141
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, Javanese, 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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Links Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
None
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Not at the moment
Optional
No
plugins, templates, PHP
yes, using Python
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
No
No
Contents
Extras Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wiclear MediaWiki Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[Title]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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)
External Link
[Title|http://url.to/]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
@@--- strikethrough @@
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strike-through~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
[[Image:wiki.png]]
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
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
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# list
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
; term : definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Term:<def>
def
term::
definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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