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last edited 1 year ago by Nate Lowrie

Wikis are websites that everyone can edit. You can edit any existing page by clicking on the Edit link at the bottom, and change it however you like. You can create new pages by either using WordsAllSmashedTogether?, or by enclosing [a new page title]? in square brackets. You then click on the ? after the name to create the new page.

Don't worry about changing things. Each version saved is backed up for a couple of weeks, so even if you totally screw things up, they can always be restored back an earlier state. There's even a WikiSandbox? page for you to try stuff out.

There is a help page link at the bottom of each page. This goes into a lot of detail about Wikis in general. I've included the most used info here:

Formatting rules in a nutshell:

  1. WikiName??'s, [freeform page names in brackets]??, http://URLs , structured text-style links and ZWiki:RemoteWikiLinks are made into hyperlinks
  2. text beginning and ending with *, **, _ or ' is italic, bold, underlined or monospaced respectively
  3. one or more non-blank lines are run together form a paragraph; blank lines separate paragraphs
  4. a one-line "paragraph" followed by a more-indented paragraph makes a heading
  5. a paragraph beginning with - or * or 0. and a space makes a bullet or numbered list item; a more-indented list item starts a sub-list
  6. HTML tags may be used if necessary; on sites which permit it, DTML tags (server-side code) may also be used
  7. Some or all of the above rules may be escaped, by putting ! at the beginning of a link or a line LikeThis?; by enclosing text in single quotes LikeThis ; or by indenting text after a paragraph ending with a double colon : 
          LikeThis  
      escapes <HTML tags> and &dtml-too;


Font Colors

You can mark a length of text to appear in color by using the following tags. Start the colored area with the tag listed below; end it with ##:

Color Example Result
#red# This is #red#colorful##. This is colorful.
#green# This is #green#colorful##. This is colorful.
#blue# This is #blue#colorful##. This is colorful.
#yellow# This is #yellow#colorful##. This is colorful.
#purple# This is #purple#colorful##. This is colorful.
#cyan# This is #cyan#colorful##. This is colorful.
#gold# This is #gold#colorful##. This is colorful.
#magenta# This is #magenta#colorful##. This is colorful.
#orange# This is #orange#colorful##. This is colorful.
#pink# This is #pink#colorful##. This is colorful.


Smilies

Here's a list of what you type to get the various smilies:

Type Image Name
:) smile
;) wink
:D :D big grin
:( frown
:o :o embarrasment
:p :p stick out tongue
}:) evil
:cool: cool
:confused: confused
:rolleyes: rolleyes (sarcastic)
:mad: mad
:eek: eek!
:tick: tick

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