=====Help=====

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:

===Create a link to the new page===

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:

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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 ''<nowiki>~~NOTOC~~</nowiki>'' 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:

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==== Links ====

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: [[http://www.google.com|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 [[pagename|link text]].

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

[[doku>pagename|Wiki pagenames]] are converted to lowercase automatically, special characters are not allowed.

You can use [[some: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 [[doku>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 [[help#cross-referencing|this Section]].

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

==== Footnotes ====

You can add footnotes ((This is a footnote)) 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

''<nowiki>~~DISCUSSION|Comments~~</nowiki>''

====Formatting====

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