sailingto wrote:
> I've just registered myself, but didn't see any way to edit after logging
> in. I am not familiar with wiki work at all, so I'm sure I'm just missing
> something.
>
> It will be good to have LOTS of info about PCB collected in one space and
> easy to find.
>
> Thanks - 73 de Ken H> K9FV
OK, this is how it works:
- Before you can edit (or create) a page, you need to have an account
registered. Any email address is fine as long as you can get the confirmation
email that the wiki sends out. You also need to enter the text in the image
(the CAPTCHA) otherwise you'll get asked to try again. This is to try and
reduce the risk of automated spam.
- Log in, then open the page you want to edit.
- To edit a section of a page (that is from one heading down to the next),
follow the heading to the right, and you'll see a little "pencil and paper"
icon. That's the 'edit section' button. Click it, and you'll be presented with
a text box, with all the text and Wiki markup pre-entered.
- To edit an existing page, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and
you'll see a white "Edit" link between the bottom of the Wiki page and the
"Powered by TikiWiki" banner. Click that, and you'll get the same edit page
you get for the section-edit function, but with the whole page pre-entered.
- To create a new page, add a link to it to an existing page, then save the
page, click the "?" after the link, and you'll be presented with the edit page.
- If you don't know TikiWiki markup, get to the edit page (the one with the
text box) and click the white "Wiki Help" button underneath and to the left of
the Preview button.
As for the markup language TW uses, here are a few of the basics:
Begin a line with one or more exclamation points ==> heading.
e.g. !Foobar ==> level 1 heading, !!Foobar ==> level 2 heading ...
Begin one or more lines with "∗ " (asterisk-space) to create a bulleted list
e.g. ∗ foo, ∗ bar, ...
Begin one or more lines with "# " (asterisk-space) to create a numbered list
e.g. # foo, # bar, ...
To create a Wiki-Link, wrap the text in double-brackets (e.g. (( and )) )
e.g. ((DoubleSidedBoardAlignmentMethods))
Unlike most other Wikis, TikiWiki doesn't automatically turn CamelCased
words into links.
To link to another website, do this:
[
http://www.google.com/|Google]
For an email address:
[mailto:
user@...|A test address]
Put two apostrophes around text to italicise it, or two underscores to
embolden it (make it bold)
e.g. ''Italic'', __Bold__
You can put text in a box like this:
^text in a box^
That covers about half of what TikiWiki can do, but about 90% or so of what
you might need to do. It's a bit different to MediaWiki (the software that
runs Wikipedia) -- I find it easier to use, and it's certainly easier to
configure... I'm not sure how the markup compares, it's been a while since
I've done any more than a minor edit on WP.
Thanks,
--
Phil.
ygroups@...http://www.philpem.me.uk/