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

General Features WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.5.4
6.1.25
1.0
16.3.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
2024-04-11 (24 days ago)
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Josh Schmidt
WackoWiki Team
David Jobet
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Internet Communities
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
private users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
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 WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
All
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, anything with PHP
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySql
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
No
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
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 WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
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
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
No
actions (PHP)
Not at the moment
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Output WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
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
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikyBlog WackoWiki Wiclear XWiki MediaWiki
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

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

Quotes:

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