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| This is likely to depend on your past experience editing wikis and similar, if any. | This is likely to depend on your past experience editing wikis and similar, if any. | ||
| - | Unlike systems like Google Docs, which allows you to edit things just as you see them,((this is called WYSIWYG: what you see is what you get)) DokuWiki and many other similar systems use what is called a " | + | Unlike systems like Google Docs, which allows you to edit things just as you see them,((this is called WYSIWYG: what you see is what you get)) DokuWiki and many other similar systems use what is called a " |
| All lightweight markup languages are designed to help us write in plain text what can be translated into a nicely formatted web page (in HTML). Trouble is, there isn't just one way of doing this. | All lightweight markup languages are designed to help us write in plain text what can be translated into a nicely formatted web page (in HTML). Trouble is, there isn't just one way of doing this. | ||
| - | ===== DokuWiki editing ===== | + | ===== DokuWiki editing |
| - | If you don't have any experience, we suggest you make use of the editing toolbar, which appears just above the edit window when you have opened a page to edit. Using the edit toolbar will give you native DokuWiki markup. The notes on following pages will have a section "Menu bar". As you become familiar, you may find it quicker simply to write in the DokuWiki | + | If you don't have any experience, we suggest you make use of the editing toolbar, which appears just above the edit window when you have opened a page to edit. Using the edit toolbar will give you native DokuWiki markup. The notes on following pages will have a section "Using the toolbar" |
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| + | ===== DokuWiki syntax editing just typing ===== | ||
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| + | As you become familiar, you may find it quicker simply to write in the DokuWiki | ||
| If you are already experienced with DokuWiki, go right ahead as you are used to! | If you are already experienced with DokuWiki, go right ahead as you are used to! | ||
| - | If this is your preferred approach, skip the rest of this page and you are good to go: see the following pages. | + | If you are happy using DokuWiki, with or without the toolbar, skip the rest of this page and you are good to go: see the following pages. |
| - | ===== Markdown ===== | + | ===== Editing using Markdown |
| If you are familiar with Markdown, but not DokuWiki, we have included a plugin to allow many things to be written in Markdown. On each page below we include a section for people familiar with Markdown, on what you can use and what not. | If you are familiar with Markdown, but not DokuWiki, we have included a plugin to allow many things to be written in Markdown. On each page below we include a section for people familiar with Markdown, on what you can use and what not. | ||
| - | ===== MediaWiki including Wikipedia ===== | + | ===== For those who know MediaWiki |
| - | If you are familiar with using a MediaWiki system, including Wikipedia, again the lightweight markup language is different. If you are also familiar with Markdown, | + | If you are familiar with using a MediaWiki system, including Wikipedia, again their lightweight markup language is different. If you are also familiar with Markdown, |