So what magic do you need to master to edit pages on this wiki?

Draft Info from an email (needs refactoring!)

We don't have much of a structured tutorial on this. In fact we don't even have much of a structure at out wiki. I'm hoping to spend some time on the latter, say within the next month-or-two.

But to get started, people are often encouraged to go the the sandbox and look around (eg, by editing the sandbox page itself) and experiment at will.

Of course the first question is probably "how do I get there?". If you know the name of the page (note: proper capitalization), you can just goto (eg): http://www.kernel-panic.org/wiki/SandBox or you can look for a link on the "FrontPage" itself. You can also click on the "wiki contents" tab (the wiki-specific navigation tabs above the green bar) to find an alphabetical list of pages.

This may be helpful:

• In general there is no hierarchy, (just about) every wiki page is has an URL like http://www.kernel-panic.org/wiki/
• Page names are mostly "WikiWord"s (note: camel-case)
• Every page is editable (as far as I know -- there may be ways to lock some of them)
• To add new pages rather than edit an existing page, one can either:

  a) add a WikiWord to an existing page, if it seems related (somehow) to the subject matter of the existing page. The new page is considered a child of the page page on which you edit-in the original WikiWord. Note that after adding the WikiWord, it will have a question mark, which is a link to an edit page that lets you create your opus. After you save your work, the parent WikiWord changes to a link.

  b) create the page without any such cross reference, by choosing "add new item" tab then "wikipage" from the list. You really should rename the page on the edit form to look like a WikiWord. Such a page will be shown on the wiki contents listind under the "Singletons" sublist, ie, a page that's not initially linked-to (parented) from anywhere. (One can "re-parent" pages afterwards, BTW).

In the edit screen, there is an upload capability, but that does NOT create page content -- it creates an attachment. I don't remember if/how to upload a file into the content box. What I usually do is choose "select all" in my local editor, then choose past from the browser right-mouse context menu in the page-edit form.

Unless you have a reason to do otherwise, the recommended format to enter your text is what they call structured text -- which basically looks sortof ok, even with no attention to formatting. But be aware the default behavior is to reflow "paragraphs".

There are a couple of FrontPage links to text formatting tips and rules, where you can see about lists, headers, and pre-formatted-text, etc. Most of the time I have to refresh my memory on how to inhibit WikiWords (Note the bang).