Use pairs of characters as shown here to make text **bold**, //italic//, __underlined__ or ''monospaced''.
Headings (headlines) are defined by equal signs (like '
=====Heading
====='), but they may ONLY contain text. Especially, links are NOT allowed in Headings, unlike MediaWiki which does allow links. Info on why is
here.
More '='s makes BIGGER heading text, not smaller as in MediaWiki. I use 4, 5, and 6 '='s for small, medium, and large (top of page) headings, what would be 3, 2, and 1 '='s in MediaWiki.
The characters to start a list item are star (
*) for unnumbered, and dash (
-) for numbered (NOT '#'). They
MUST be indented by 2 spaces, will
NOT work at the left margin. For each further list indent, add 2 more leading spaces, NOT another star or dash.
Working with Lists To display text without wiki formatting or wrapping it into paragraphs, for example text copied from an email or a PDF, use <text>your text</text>. Uppercase <TEXT>your text</TEXT> does the same and draws a box around it.
To force a new line, use '\\' at the end of a line, or '\\ ' in the middle of a line (note the required trailing space). An empty line acts as a paragraph separator, which causes a new line followed by an empty line.
To force a new line after a list item requires 2 new lines, so add '\\ \\' at the end of the list item.
To prevent characters from being interpreted as markup, bracket them with a pair of percent signs (%) on each end.
There is no Page Title stored outside of the page markup, unlike MediaWiki. FSGW has DokuWiki configured to use the first Headline on each page as that pages title. If you want to override that, you can put “~~Title:Desired Page Title~~” at the very top of the page markup.
Internal (inside the wiki) links are defined as: [[:page filename]], for example: [[admin_tools]]
If a page is in an access group like staff or treasurer, then use [[group name:page filename]]. For pages not in a group, you can often leave the leading colon “:” out, but to link from a page in a group to a page not in any group, the leading colon is required.
External (outside the wiki) links are defined as: [[<URL>|description to display]], for example: [[https://fsgw.org|FSGW website]]
External links will always open in a new tab. This is a configuration choice FSGW made in DokuWiki.
You can upload images and display them embedded in a wiki page
as explained here.
This page contains an image
But the “
wiki:” they suggest in the tag does not work for me. Instead use just a bare colon “
:”.
A working image display tag is:
{{:eventcount_with_eventadmin.png?direct&800}} The page editing window can easily be expanded vertically. Click on the fat down and up arrows below the bottom right corner of the editing window, to vertically expand or contract the editing window somewhat at each click. This size change is saved from edit to edit in that tab.
For a temporary change, hover your mouse cursor just inside the bottom right corner of the editing window, move it around until it becomes a horizontal line with up and down arrows. Click and hold as you move the mouse cursor to where you want the bottom right corner of the editing window to be. This can also narrow or widen the editing window.
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