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| ====== Using and Maintaining This Wiki ====== |
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| ===== Basics ===== |
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| ==== What is a Wiki? ==== |
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| A wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from within the web browser. Text is written using a simplified markup language. Anyone with a user account can log in and create new information pages or edit and update existing pages from within their web browser. |
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| A wiki is run using wiki software on a server. There are dozens of different wiki server systems available. This wiki is based on the Dokuwiki server engine. |
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| "Wiki" is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick". The goal is to have a web system that is quick to learn and quick to maintain. |
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| ==== Wiki Syntax ==== |
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| Wiki language syntax is a simplified way of creating web pages. There is no HTML involved. So instead of having to learn all the various forms of complicated HTML markup, just a few simple text tags are used. For example to make a bulleted list in HTML you would write: |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Item 1</li> |
| <li>Item 2</li> |
| <li>Item 3</li> |
| </ul> |
| </code> |
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| But in wiki markup you would simply write: |
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| <code> |
| * Item 1 |
| * Item 2 |
| * Item 3 |
| </code> |
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| and it will look like: |
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| * Item 1 |
| * Item 2 |
| * Item 3 |
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| In HTML a link to a different page might look like: |
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| <a href=” http://www.telemetryspectrum.org/documents.html”>Documents</a> |
| </code> |
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| In wiki markup you would write: |
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| [[Documents]] |
| </code> |
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| Headings, bolding, underlines, tables, and other common formatting are similarly easy. Some more complicated formatting is also available with the use of some custom plug-ins that have been installed. |
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| ==== Creating New Pages and Editing Existing Pages ==== |
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| The editor – note links to wiki syntax pages, make editor bigger |
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| Plug-ins |
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| ===== Advanced Topics ===== |
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| ==== Namespaces ==== |
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| [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/namespaces|Namespaces]] are like directories. Create them and use them to keep pages, documents, images, and other files organized. Also, namespaces should be used to create areas which may have restricted access. |
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| ==== Uploading and using documents, files, and images ==== |
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| Documents, files, and images can be uploaded to allow users to click on a link to download. Creating downloadable documents is a two step process. |
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| * Upload the files using the Media Manager. |
| * Create wiki links to these files. |
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| Detailed instructions for this are on the [[Upload/Download]] page. |
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| ==== Users and Protecting Pages ==== |
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| ===== Organization of the ITCS Wiki ===== |
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