Wiclear vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikyBlog

General Features Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Version
1.0
6.1.25
16.3.1
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
Author
David Jobet
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Private, Internet Communities
Hosting Features Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Operating System
All
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
MySql
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
MySQL
Datastorage Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
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 Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
No
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Not at the moment
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
No
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog
Internal Link
[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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[Title|http://url.to/]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
((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:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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