WiGit vs. Wiclear vs. XWiki vs. TWiki vs. WikyBlog

General Features WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Version
0.1
1.0
16.3.0
TWiki-6.1.0
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2008-07-20 (15 years ago)
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2024-04-29 (4 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-09 (14 years ago)
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2024-04-30 (3 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
Author
Remko Tronçon
David Jobet
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
other
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users
private users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Private, Internet Communities
Hosting Features WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Operating System
All
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
Git
MySql
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
MySQL
Datastorage WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
Git repositories
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 Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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
No
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Development/Support WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
No
No
Interface Languages
0
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
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Not at the moment
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
No
Content Includes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Contents
No
Extras WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WiGit Wiclear XWiki TWiki WikyBlog
Internal Link
[InternalLink]
[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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
"External link":http://externallink.com
[Title|http://url.to/]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
h1. Headline
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
*Bold*
__bold__
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_Italics_
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
@monospace@
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!image.jpg!
((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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
>Right-aligned
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
#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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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