Wiclear vs. WackoWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikyBlog vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki

General Features Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
Version
1.0
6.1.25
16.2.0
1.5.4
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (14 days ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
David Jobet
WackoWiki Team
XWiki Development Team
Josh Schmidt
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Private, Internet Communities
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
Operating System
All
OS Independent
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, anything with PHP
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
MySql
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
MySQL
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
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
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
No
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Not at the moment
actions (PHP)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
No
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Output Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiclear WackoWiki XWiki WikyBlog MediaWiki TWiki
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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<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]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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