https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/ 2026-05-06T04:23:27+00:00 https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/ https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/favicon.ico text/html 2026-04-16T13:17:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/basic_text_formatting?rev=1776345437&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Basic text formatting Try out all these techniques below in the playground. Using the toolbar The first five items on the left of the edit window toolbar offer you basic text formatting. You can either click on the relevant place, where * B gives ` text/html 2026-04-15T11:02:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/concept_pages?rev=1776250923&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Concept pages The main job of curators is to provide and maintain useful, high-quality information about the topic(s) that they are curating. However, some ideas are relevant across many different topics. This is where concept pages play a useful role. text/html 2026-04-24T17:13:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/creating_and_deleting_pages?rev=1777050811&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Creating and deleting pages First, to say that permissions for creating and deleting are restricted to certain user groups, and certain namespaces, as part of the site rules, to help avoid problems. If you find you are not allowed to create or delete something that you think you should be able to, please ask the wiki team for the required permission. text/html 2026-04-04T18:27:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/different_editing_techniques?rev=1775327260&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Different editing techniques We want you as a curator to be able to edit pages most comfortably. 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, text/html 2026-04-04T18:25:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/editing_saving_reverting?rev=1775327108&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Editing, saving and reverting You can try out all of these techniques below in the playground. Before getting into the details of editing a page, it's worth being clear about the process. On the right of each page, in normal view, there is a small menu of icons (shown on the left here for reassurance!). If you are allowed to edit the page, there is a pencil-like icon at the top text/html 2026-04-20T12:31:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/emojis_and_special_characters?rev=1776688276&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Emojis and special characters Try out all these techniques below in the playground. ---------- Using the toolbar This is the recommended way of introducing emojis (or emoticons, or smileys) and characters that don't appear on your keyboard. text/html 2026-04-15T11:40:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/getting_an_account?rev=1776253232&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Getting started with an account To contribute to curating these pages, you will need to set up an account, similarly to on many other sites. We give our curators editing rights over specific topics, and we are encouraging collective responsibility for maintaining and extending those aspects of the knowledge base. (It's not like Wikipedia, where anyone can change anything.) text/html 2026-04-05T19:38:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/inserting_images?rev=1775417937&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Inserting images and videos Try out all these techniques below in the playground. ---------- Inserting images Both DokuWiki and Markdown syntax work for images. The first step is to know where the image is that you want to display. For external images (on the web), it could be something like text/html 2026-04-04T19:01:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/linebreaks_and_spaces?rev=1775329277&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Linebreaks and spaces Try out all these techniques below in the playground. ---------- In HTML, the line breaks and paragraph breaks are coded explicitly, so it doesn't matter how you actually set out the text in your file. It's quite different in all lightweight markup languages, and this is one of the main causes of not getting the page to show as you intend. So here is what we hope is most useful for editing our wiki pages. text/html 2026-03-31T06:09:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/linebreaks_spacing?rev=1774937365&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Linebreaks and spaces Try out all these techniques below in the playground. ---------- In HTML, the line breaks and paragraph breaks are coded explicitly, so it doesn't matter how you actually set out your file. It's very different in all lightweight markup languages, and this is one of the main causes of not getting the page to show as you intend. So here is what we hope is most useful for editing our wiki pages. text/html 2026-04-04T18:58:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/links?rev=1775329090&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Links Try out all these techniques below in the playground. ---------- Using the toolbar There are a pair of icons on the toolbar: [this is just a demo, don't click here!] The one on the left is for internal links – that is, links to other pages in this wiki – and the one on the right for external links. text/html 2026-04-12T18:09:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/lists?rev=1776017390&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Lists Try out all these techniques below in the playground. Using the toolbar The list icons in the toolbar may not be very easy to see. The one on the left has numbers; the one on the right has dots. The simplest one to use is the one on the right, when text/html 2026-03-31T09:12:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/md-syntax-cheatsheet?rev=1774948369&do=diff See all of our internal documentation Cheatsheet - for things specific to LI pages turned into Markdown See also: * the general syntax page, adjusted for our setup * a good generic markdown cheatsheet, however, not covering the exact features we have in our setup Figures <figure>  text/html 2026-04-25T09:26:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/mediawiki_and_dokuwiki?rev=1777109178&do=diff part of the GtC documentation MediaWiki and DokuWiki If you are familiar with editing any MediaWiki wiki, this table will help you find some of the basic equivalents in DokuWiki syntax. Syntax Examples MediaWiki DokuWiki DokuWiki result Internal Link [[a link]] [[a link|with title]] text/html 2026-04-12T18:20:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/namespace?rev=1776018014&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Namespaces in DokuWiki Fear not: this can look very unfamiliar at first sight, but it's not really hard. A namespace in DokuWiki is basically a way of pointing to different parts of the wiki. It's just like the folder (or directory) structure on your file system (on your hard drive or wherever), which allows you to arrange your files into a tree-like structure of sensible groups. Many web sites arrange their pages into folders or directories. This is a very usefu… text/html 2026-04-12T18:04:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/navigating_the_site?rev=1776017093&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Navigating the Growing the Commons knowledge base It's helpful for everyone consulting this wiki to get to know how to get around the site. There are several ways round that anyone can use, and if you are a curator it is worth being familiar with all of them, as this will help you to help others, as well as yourself. text/html 2026-04-12T18:08:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/page_section_headings?rev=1776017305&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Paragraphs and page section headings When we talk about headings, we often use “h1” to mean a top-level heading, like a page title, because in HTML it is coded as <h1>. h2 is the next level down, etc. The heading above – “Paragraphs and page section headings text/html 2026-04-20T12:18:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/signing_comments?rev=1776687535&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Signing comments Try out all these techniques below in the playground. ---------- This is not for all edits. In any case you can see who made which edit on the “Old revisions” button, and you can see who last edited the page at the bottom right: that is put there automatically. Equally, if there is a reasonable consensus between curators, there is no point to claiming individual authorship. text/html 2026-04-26T14:09:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/start?rev=1777212574&do=diff Start over Documentation for curating this wiki for Growing the Commons There is a playground where you can try all of the skills below. Try it! Who are our curators and contributors? To manage a knowledge resource such as this, we need a variety of knowledge, skills and experience, which may not come all together in the same person. We need: text/html 2026-04-24T13:55:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/starting_a_new_topic?rev=1777038903&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Procedure for starting a new topic This starts when we have at least one confirmed curator, preferably two or more. The “wiki team” is currently Katja and Simon, and we consult overall with Dave and others. * Be clear about the topic you want to start, and that it isn’t dealt with adequately within existing topics. text/html 2026-04-12T18:22:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/tables?rev=1776018176&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Tables Try out all these techniques below in the playground. Using the toolbar In the editing toolbar, there is an icon for a few miscellaneous things: . Clicking on that brings up a menu: . It's the second of these, [Add table with caption] that helps here. Clicking there gives you this template … text/html 2026-04-25T09:51:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/template_for_topics?rev=1777110707&do=diff This topic is part of Digital & Media. (Well, it isn't, but it could be!) Annotated template for topics (h1) (This, above, is the topic title) (This is the image; the caption follows): By MiguelMunoz - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84374532> This is a Penrose tiling. This image or graphic needs to have width:height = 4:3, as it will also be used as an image in the topic group grid menu, and the images in the grids all need the same aspect ratio. I… text/html 2026-05-04T21:10:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/templates?rev=1777929013&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Templates and page structure You can try out some of these on the playground page. Templates are set up for particular namespaces. If a template has been set up, it will appear as a kind of scaffolding when you create a new page on the wiki — in this case, suggesting the elements that we think work well in the particular kind of page you are creating. It helps both writers and readers: text/html 2026-04-06T10:18:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/uploading_images?rev=1775470692&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Uploading images Being able to upload photos and other images is important for all curators for their own personal home pages (see getting an account), and then for improving any other pages you create or curate. In Growing the Commons, we pride ourselves in making pages look attractive with the addition of images — a practice we have taken on from text/html 2026-04-04T18:10:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/uploading_photos?rev=1775326211&do=diff ---------- [this is just illustration, for info try the real thing!] OK, you're keen and sure you want to go through with this approach! When you hover over the boxes in those three rows (the real thing, not the illustration above!) it will pop-up what each of them mean. Explaining these, based on the pop-up text: text/html 2026-04-06T10:21:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/watch_pages?rev=1775470866&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Watch pages DokuWiki, like other wikis, including Wikipedia, allows you to be notified when anyone makes changes to pages that you want to know about. Anyone can do this, if they have an interest in changes to a page, provided they are logged in and have registered their e-mail address — otherwise DokuWiki wouldn't know where to send the notifications text/html 2026-04-05T08:55:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/wrap?rev=1775379310&do=diff part of the GtC documentation WRAP Try out all these techniques below in the playground. What WRAP does is essentially sneaking in some HTML functionality (and as you might also see, following HTML syntax) for a few things that aren't easy in a lightweight markup language (LML). This kind of thing is a common feature of wikis and related systems.