Wiki Usage

Wiki is a platform for working together on constructing web pages. The principles are simple.

• A text is written and saved.
• Later, another person may read that text and think of some additions or corrections that could be made. They choose "Edit" and make their changes to the page.
• After saving their new version, it is available globally.

With a wiki, it is also easily possible to add a page or link to existing pages.

• A link is created by a WikiWord. This is one word with at least two capital letters. If a page with this name already exist, it will be linked automatically, if not, it will be displayed with a question mark.
• Clicking on this question mark, will start a new blank page with that name, ready to edit.

Wiki formatting rules

Paragraphs

• separate paragraphs inside the text with empty lines
• use three percent signs %%% to enforce a line break
• if you prepend text with spaces or tabs it will get indented

!! Headlines

• use an exclamation mark ! at the beginning of a line to create a small headline
• !! for medium
• !!! for large headlines

Text style

• if you want to emphasize text enclose it in two single-quotes '' (usually looks italic)
• text gets bold with two underscores __ (or if enclosed with two asterisks **)
• to make text big enclose it in hash characters ##
• you can get smaller text using "µµ" likewise
• a typewrite like font will be used if you enclose text in two equal == signs

Lists

• start a line with an asterisk * to begin a list
• use # instead for numerated lists
  1. you can create sublists
  2. subsequent list points should start with the same mix of * and #

HyperLinks

• just enter a WikiWord inside your text to create a new hyper link
• enclose some words in [square brackets] to create a HyperLink inside the WikiWikiWeb which is not made up of a valid WikiWord
• any valid internet address (starting with http:/) like http://www.example.com/ inside the text will be made clickable automatically
• enclose a www address or a WikiLink inside square brackets and assign it a neat title using quotation marks or the | character
  • [title | http://example.com]
  • [WikiWord "title"] or ["title for" WikiLink]
• if you don't want a WikiWord or a http://www-address (or [anything] inside square brackets) to become a HyperLink then just prepend it with a exclamation mark or a tilde
  • !NoHyperLink, ~NoHyperLink
  • ![no hyperlink], !http://nolink.org/

Tables with |

| just enclose | things with the dash | character |
| to build a | table structure |
| browsers usually | leave out the missing | cells |

Please always put an empty line before and after a table, so it stands out from other text in its own paragraph.

Pictures

• to include an image into a page enclose its absolute www-address in square brackets, like [http://www.example.com/pics/image.png]
• alternatively you could use the image uploading function.

Further readings

There are more possibilities for Wiki mark-up. Please consult the Erfurt Wiki Homepage for more information.