XWiki vs. Wicked vs. MediaWiki vs. Wiclear vs. TracWiki

General Features XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Version
16.3.0
2.0.8
1.32.2
1.0
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (9 days ago)
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-08-06 (16 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (8 days ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2007-09-16 (16 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
The Horde Project
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
David Jobet
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
private users
Software development teams
Hosting Features XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
All
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Any
Any with PHP support
Apache
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
none
MySql
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Other
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
None
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
25 different backends
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
No
Development/Support XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, 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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
141
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, Javanese, 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
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Links XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
No
Optional
Not at the moment
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Output XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Keywords
No
No
Extras XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Wicked MediaWiki Wiclear TracWiki
Internal Link
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]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Title]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[http://example.org The title]
[Title|http://url.to/]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
@@--- strikethrough @@
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
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
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term : definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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