WiGit vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiclear vs. XWiki vs. TWiki

General Features WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Version
0.1
6.1.25
1.0
16.3.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2008-07-20 (15 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-09 (14 years ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Remko Tronçon
WackoWiki Team
David Jobet
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
other
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
private users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
All
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Git
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySql
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Git repositories
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Interface Languages
0
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
Not at the moment
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Output WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WiGit WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[InternalLink]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Title]
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)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
"External link":http://externallink.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
h1. Headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
_Italics_
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
@monospace@
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!image.jpg!
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
>Right-aligned
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| 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
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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