====== Using and Maintaining This Wiki ======
===== Basics =====
==== What is a Wiki? ====
A wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from within the web browser. Text is written using a simplified markup language. Anyone with a user account can log in and create new information pages or edit and update existing pages from within their web browser.
A wiki is run using wiki software on a server. There are dozens of different wiki server systems available. This wiki is based on the Dokuwiki server engine.
"Wiki" is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick". The goal is to have a web system that is quick to learn and quick to maintain.
==== Wiki Syntax ====
Wiki language syntax is a simplified way of creating web pages. There is no HTML involved. So instead of having to learn all the various forms of complicated HTML markup, just a few simple text tags are used. For example to make a bulleted list in HTML you would write:
But in wiki markup you would simply write:
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 3
and it will look like:
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 3
In HTML a link to a different page might look like:
Documents
In wiki markup you would write:
[[Documents]]
Headings, bolding, underlines, tables, and other common formatting are similarly easy. Some more complicated formatting is also available with the use of some custom plug-ins that have been installed.
==== Creating New Pages and Editing Existing Pages ====
The editor – note links to wiki syntax pages, make editor bigger
Plug-ins
===== Advanced Topics =====
==== Namespaces ====
[[https://www.dokuwiki.org/namespaces|Namespaces]] are like directories. Create them and use them to keep pages, documents, images, and other files organized. Also, namespaces should be used to create areas which may have restricted access.
==== Uploading and using documents, files, and images ====
Documents, files, and images can be uploaded to allow users to click on a link to download. Creating downloadable documents is a two step process.
* Upload the files using the Media Manager.
* Create wiki links to these files.
Detailed instructions for this are on the [[Upload/Download]] page.
==== Users and Protecting Pages ====
===== Organization of the ITCS Wiki =====