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Help Desk > Tutorials > Personal and Group Web Accounts > Wiki |
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This tutorial will describe how to add and edit content in your new wiki. If you would like to change the look of your wiki, including changing the sidebar links, logo, or overall look and feel, see the Customization tutorial.
The URL of your Wiki will be similar to the URL of your webpub account, with /wiki/ appended to the end, and was emailed to you with your notice that the wiki was ready. Example URLs are listed below:
Student with network logon smithj:
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/student/s/smithj/wiki/
Employee with network logon jsmith:
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/j/jsmith/wiki/
Department with network logon english (or english was requested for URL):
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/dept/english/wiki/
Group with network logon gap (or gap was requested for URL):
http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/gap/wiki/
You add a new page to your wiki by creating a link to the page on an existing wiki page, and then clicking on that link to edit the new page.
To create a link to a page, either new or existing, simply type the name of the page between double brackets while editing an existing wiki page.
For example, typing [[Courses]] in the wiki page below has created a link using the word Courses. The ? above Courses indicates that the page named Courses doesn't yet exist.
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Click on the link you just created to reach the Edit Box for the new page. When you save your changes, the new page will be created. See Editing an Existing Page for more information on adding content to your new page.
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Note that PmWiki uses the name of the page as the title of the page. There are times that you may want to change this behavior, for example if you want the title of your home page to be something other than the default title, Home Page. To change the title of a page, edit the page and insert the text (:title Your New Title :). In the example below, the title of the Home Page is changed to Welcome.
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You can organize your PmWiki pages into groups. This aids navigation, and is useful if you want to control access to certain parts of your wiki. See the Basic Wiki Administration tutorial for more information about access control.
You create a new group the same way you create a new page, but you type the group name in front of a page name, separated by a dot. For example, [[FS101.FS101]] will create a link to the FS101 page in the group called FS101.
Further pages can be added to this group by typing FS101 in front of the page name: [[FS101.Syllabus]], [[FS101.Assignments]], etc.
Note that adding links [[Syllabus]] and [[Assignments]] to the FS101.FS101 page will also create the pages Syllabus and Assignments in the FS101 group, even though that group wasn't explicitly stated.
By creating groups for your pages, you can take advantage of PmWiki's built-in navigation features. In our example above, PmWiki automatically displays a link to FS101.FS101, the first page in the FS101 group, above the page title of each page in the FS101 group.
