Knowledge Based Websites With Wiki Software

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This page will attempt to summarize some of the more commonly asked questions. The answers are on the corresponding pages (see link). If you have a question which isn't answered here, you can leave your question on the Questions page or search for documentation using the search facility. More documentation can be found on the documentation index page.

Wikis are growing in popularity because they are about as simple as any web app. Wikis will allow an individual or group of people to edit the website with little or no knowledge of coding. This simplicity means that anyone will find them very easy to use and maintain.

Success Stories
Here are a few sites that are using PmWiki to successfully meet their web needs (also see references, PmWiki Users, PmWiki Friendly Hosting).
Have your own success story to share? Add it below! (Did PmWiki not work for you? Add it to Failure Stories!)
This list is sorted alphabetically, please add your site accordingly.

PmWiki makes it easy to develop and change "Skins" which alter the layout, look, and feel of the pages. You can preview available skins in the Skins Gallery in a reduced size or see how a test page looks with some assorted markup. (The old test page is still available, and here's another one.)

Wiki web solution focused on providing high performance, security, and extensibility. You and your users will easily be able to edit your site with the exclusive WikkaEdit toolbar. An easy-to-use standard compliant Wiki which is best for creating and managing documentation. DokuWiki helps teams and work-groups interact much easier. Its Administrative panel works with editing text rather than code.

Welcome to the PmWiki Cookbook! The "recipes" in the Cookbook describe add-on scripts and various "tips and tricks" that let you customize PmWiki in lots of different ways. If this is your first exposure to the Cookbook, you may want to read Cookbook Basics.

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.

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A local copy of PmWiki's documentation has been installed along with the software, and is available via the documentation index.
To continue setting up PmWiki, see initial setup tasks.

PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an "Edit" link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website, using basic editing rules. You do not need to know or use any HTML or CSS. Page editing can be left open to the public or restricted to small groups of authors.

Features

Custom look and feel
Access control
Reviews
Plugin architecture
User support
Page editing
Email-notification
Web Feeds
Site Map
Page table of contents
Images resizing
Customization
Nice URLs

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NOTE to translators: When updating your tips page, please use the index button to see what pages are within your locale :tips namespace. And please do include them into the tips page. You can add it easily to your website hosting account with just a few clicks.

Templates
DokuWiki's layout can be customized through templates (aka. skins or themes) with your own customized Domain Name. Since some template features change with newer DokuWiki releases it's best to stick to templates with release dates that are equal or more recent than the DokuWiki release you're using. It cannot be guaranteed that older templates provide the full set of features. For important changes please check the changelog.

Plugins provide a system of extending DokuWiki's features without the need to hack the original code (and so again on each update). Below is a list of ready-to-use plugins created by DokuWiki users. The installation can be done automatically by search and install the plugin via the extension manager1). A plugin could be manually installed by putting it into its own folder under lib/plugins/. See the detailed plugin installation instructions.

What can be configured
The “system” options of DokuWiki will be found in the conf/dokuwiki.php file. However this file contains the “default” values of the system. To customize it, you should edit the file conf/local.php or create it if it doesn't exist. To find what you can configure within that file, see the list of available options below.

New questions are added by the core developer team only if they really are frequent, so do not add questions here. Instead see the FAQ entry on how to get support.

The manual is intended to be the extended resource for all standard questions on using DokuWiki. It includes information useful for “standard” users up to administrators who want to configure and run their own wiki installation.

DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files, no database is required. DokuWiki has many features, and many more can be added through free plugin downloads

DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn't require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and readable syntax. The ease of maintenance, backup and integration makes it an administrator's favorite. Built in access controls and authentication connectors make DokuWiki especially useful in the enterprise context and the large number of plugins contributed by its vibrant community allow for a broad range of use cases beyond a traditional wiki.

Features
Simple syntax
Unlimited page revisions
Uploading and embedding of images and other media
Customizable Interwiki links
Simple support for read only pages
Extended Access Control Lists
Locking to avoid edit conflicts
Automatic table of contents generation
Easy navigation through breadcrumbs
Optional CamelCase support
Spam blacklist
Support for over 30 languages
And so much more

A collection of screencasts and tutorials introducing WikkaWiki, a lightweight, fast and secure MySQL/PHP wiki engine.

See Wikka in action
You can also watch these screencasts on YouTube!
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Table of contents
Editing a page
Adding links
Creating a new page
Using actions
Embedding an RSS feed
Embedding a Flash object
Adding a code block
Linking to a mindmap
Embedding a mindmap

WikkaWiki has been IndependentWikkaReviews chosen by hundreds of users, projects, companies and organizations to run their websites. It currently powers websites in 37 languages,

WikkaWiki is a flexible, standards-compliant and lightweight wiki engine written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. Forked from WakkaWiki. Designed for speed, extensibility, and security. Released under the GPL license.