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In this section you will find some basic instructions on how to create a new page, add links to it and to specific sections.

Requesting an Account

IF you haven't received an email with your account and password, contact Rene with your email through Slack.

Create New Pages

A wiki with just one page isn’t very exciting nor interesting. So let’s make a page. I want a page called, let’s say Pink Elephants. There are a few ways to start — all of them are just ways to vist the URL of that page on my site. Here are a few ways:

You can manually create a link to your new page on another page and then click that link to get to the new URL. See below for how to create a link.

Search for the new page

If you type Pink Elephants in the search box on the top right of your page and click the magnifying class, you will get a page like this:

Now you can just click on that red pink_elephants link to visit your new page.

Manually Visit the URL

If your site’s default configuration has not been changed (or your server doesn’t support “Nice URLs”) then the default URL system is mysite/doku.php?id=PAGENAME so I thus would enter into my browser address bar:

mysite.com/doku.php?id=Pink Elephants

If your site has been configured to use “Nice URLs” then the URL would be:

mysite.com/Pink Elephants

When I do that, I see again that same “This topic does not exist yet” message. Now I know what to do — I just click the pencil icon and create my page.

The only thing to note here is that after I create my page, I see that DokuWiki has changed the Pink Elephants part of the URL to be just pink_elephants. That’s because DokuWiki doesn’t allow capital letters or spaces (or other special characters) in page names.

But that’s OK — I don’t mind — the main thing is that I have my page done now.

Sectioning

You can use up to five different levels of headlines to structure your content. If you have more than three headlines, a table of contents is generated automatically – this can be disabled by including the string ~~NOTOC~~ in the document.

Headline Level 3

Headline Level 4

Headline Level 5
==== Headline Level 3 ====
=== Headline Level 4 ===
== Headline Level 5 ==

By using four or more dashes, you can make a horizontal line:


DokuWiki supports multiple ways of creating links.

External

External links are recognized automagically: http://www.google.com or simply www.google.com - You can set the link text as well: This Link points to google. Email addresses like this one: andi@splitbrain.org are recognized, too.

DokuWiki supports multiple ways of creating links. External links are recognized
automagically: http://www.google.com or simply www.google.com - You can set
link text as well: [[http://www.google.com|This Link points to google]]. Email
addresses like this one: <andi@splitbrain.org> are recognized, too.

Internal

Internal links are created by using square brackets. You can either just give a pagename or use an additional link text.

Internal links are created by using square brackets. You can either just give
a [[pagename]] or use an additional [[pagename|link text]].

Wiki pagenames are converted to lowercase automatically, special characters are not allowed.

You can use namespaces by using a colon in the pagename.

You can use [[some:namespaces]] by using a colon in the pagename.

For details about namespaces see namespaces.

Cross-Refencing

Linking to a specific section is possible, too. Just add the section name behind a hash character as known from HTML. This links to this Section.

This links to [[help#cross-referencing|this Section]].

Footnotes

You can add footnotes 1) by using double parentheses.

You can add footnotes ((This is a footnote)) by using double parentheses.

Adding a comments section to a page

Add the following instruction to the bottom of the page you wish to add comments to

~~DISCUSSION|Comments~~

Formatting

For more in-depth information on formatting visit https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:syntax

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This is a footnote
help.txt · Last modified: 2021/04/09 13:35 by admin