WikyBlog vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiclear vs. XWiki

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

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

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
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
Definition Lists
; term : definition
{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
Horizontal Rule
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