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PmWiki: Documentation Index

The pages below describe various aspects of using, administering and troubleshooting a PmWiki installation, as well as aspects of the PmWiki community.

As you know, documentation is always incomplete. Feel free to help yourself and others by contributing to it. Just edit the pages on pmwiki.org. You might want to follow or contribute to the documentation guidelines.

• Introduction

Beginner Topics for Creating and Editing Pages

• Basic editing - PmWiki's basic edit syntax
• Creating new pages -
• Links - Multiple mechanisms for creating links
• Images -
• Text formatting rules -

Intermediate Editing Topics

• Markup master index -
• Uploads -
• Tables - Simple tables with double pipe markup, one row per line
• Table directives -
• Wiki styles - Modifying the style of page contents
  • Wiki style examples -
• Access keys - Access keys are keyboard shortcuts for tasks that would otherwise require a mouse
• Page directives - Directives to specify page titles, descriptions, keywords, and display
• Include other pages - Include contents from other PmWiki pages
• InterMap links - Interwiki links definition and use
• Conditional markup -
• Page variables -
• Page text variables - Page variables automatically made available through natural or explicit page markup
• Markup expressions -
• Forms -
• Simultaneous edits - Handling multiple attempts to edit a page nearly simultaneously

Organizing and Protecting Pages

• Wiki structure -
• Wiki groups -
• Group headers -
• Wiki trails - Trails from lists items from a single page
• Page history - History of previous edits to a page
• Passwords - General use of passwords
• Categories - Categories are a way to organize and find related pages
• Page lists - Listing pages by multiple criteria with templated output
• Attach lists - Get a list of files uploaded and attached to a group using (:attachlist:) (Directives to specify page titles, descriptions, keywords, and display)
• Deleting pages - Page maintenance
• Wiki elements -
• Special pages -

PmWiki Site Administration

Installation and maintenance

• Installation - Obtaining and installing PmWiki
• Initial setup tasks - First steps following a fresh installation
• Upgrades - How to upgrade an existing PmWiki installation
• Backup and Restore -
• Uploads administration -
• Security -

Customisation

• Custom inter map - PmWiki's default InterMap links, and how to can create additional InterMap links
• Custom markup -
• Custom wiki styles -
• Internationalizations - Language internationalisation of web pages
• Local customizations -
• Group customizations - How to customize a subset of your wiki
• Skins -
• Skin templates -
• Site Preferences - Customisable browser setting preferences: Access keys, edit form
• Web feeds - Web feed notification of changes
• Wiki Farms -

Troubleshooting

• Frequently answered questions
• Answers to some other questions
• FAQ Candidate - more answered questions
• Questions
• How to get assistance
• Troubleshooting -
• Available actions - documentation for developers

Security

• AuthUser - Authorization system that uses usernames and passwords
• Blocklist - Blocking IP addresses, phrases, and expressions to counteract spam and vandalism.
• Notify - Allows a site administrator to configure PmWiki to send email messages whenever pages are changed on the wiki site
• Passwords administration -
• Ref count -
• Url approvals - Require approval of Url links

Development

• Variables - Variables available for local customisation
• Functions? -
• Page file format -

About PmWiki

• Audiences -
• Contributors - A list of contributors to PmWiki development and improvement
• Mailing lists - The email discussion lists available and their archives
• PmWiki philosophy - This page describes some of the ideas that guide the design and implementation of PmWiki
• Design notes -
• Release notes - Notes about new versions, important for upgrades
• Change log -
• References - References to PmWiki media coverage
• Glossary -
• Introduction loop trail