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Quick help to Wiki functions and formats

Each Wiki page has the following commands accessible from the banners:

Edit to edit the page
History to list previous versions of the page
Changes to display the changes between the last and current version of the page
Home page to get to the site's home page
Site map to list all the available pages
Recent changes to list recently modified pages

To create a page, edit an existing page and add a link to the new page in it. A link is a text between double brackets (see "Text format" below). The text of the link is the name of the page pointed by the link (see titles). When you click a link to a page that does not exist, a page creation form appears, similar to the page edition form. It is also possible to create pages by uploading files. Conflicts that may happen when two authors edit the same page simultaneously are solved moslty transparently by the server.

The Wiki page has more details about Wiki. See also the page on social protocols to understand the "Wiki spirit". There are also pages for your comments and for bugs you may find, and a test page to play with.

Page editing form

A page has a one-line description text, a category, a body text, and an author.

The category is used to classify the pages and make the site map more readable. Existing categories are listed in a menu. A new category is created by entering it's name in the text edit field. See the categories page.

The format for the body text is summarized below.

The author should be your name (or login names, or initials). It will be used to create a link to your "Wiki home page". It is stored in a "cookie" so you don't have to enter it each time. See the authors page.

The "Convert accents" checkbox can be used to enter non-ASCII characters with a keyboard that does not have these characters. See the accents page.

The buttons at the bottom of the form let you save the page, i.e. create a new current version, preview the page in a separate window, reset the form and cancel changes.

Text format

The format of text is described in more details in the text, accents, lists, links and tables pages.

*** Level 1 title ***
=== Level 2 title ===
--- Level 3 title ---
___ Level 4 title ___

horizontal ruler:
---

Text in __bold__, ''italic'' and ""uni-space"".

The most frequent links are:
	- to another wiki page, e.g. the [[test page]]
	- to any URL, e.g. [[http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mbl my home page]]
	- to an image, e.g. [[image://www.daimi.au.dk/logo.gif a logo]]

Lists use indentation and special characters to identify items:
unnumbered lists use an hyphen, plus sign or asterisk (-, +, *) 
followed by whitespace; numbered lists use a number followed by
a period (.) and whitespace. For example:
	- first item
	- second item
		1. sub-item 1
		2. sub-item 2
	- last item

Description lists use a <colon-tab> delimiter:
	term:	definition
	other term:	other definition

Quotations use indentation:
	To be or not to be (wiki)

<<<
pre-formatted text
is displayed as input,
in a fixed-width font
>>>

Here is the result of the text above:

Level 1 title

Level 2 title

Level 3 title

Level 4 title

horizontal ruler:

Text in bold, italic and uni-space.

The most frequent links are:

to another wiki page, e.g. the test page
to any URL, e.g. my home page
to an image, e.g.

Lists use indentation and special characters to identify items: unnumbered lists use an hyphen, plus sign or asterisk (-, +, *) followed by whitespace; numbered lists use a number followed by a period (.) and whitespace. For example:

first item
second item
1. sub-item 1
2. sub-item 2
last item

Description lists use a <colon-tab> delimiter:

term: definition
other term: other definition

Quotations use indentation:

To be or not to be (wiki)

pre-formatted text
is displayed as input,
in a fixed-width font

Version 11, Fri 19 May 2000 14:16:38 [mackay] - created Mon 23 Nov 1998 17:51:54 [mbl]