Wiki links

Bracket case: [[text here]]

Bracket case but displaying different text to user: [[Actual title text|displayed title]]

Camel Case is text of mixed-case consisting of alphanumeric such as: TextHere

If the article doesn't exist, the Camel Case or bracket case text will be converted to: [text here]?

A logged-in user can click on the question mark link and will be shown a textarea form to be used for entering content.

If the article does exits, then the Camel Case or bracket case will be converted to a web link, pointing to the existing article.

This article is titled Lewiki:Help. If you want to create a link in another article pointing to this help page, type [[Lewiki:Help]] . Since Lewiki:Help already exists, the bracket case will be converted to the link: Lewiki:Help .

Bracket case chars

• Alphanumeric plus underscore
• Whitespace
• Dash
• Period
• Vertical bar
• Colon
• Apostrophe

No wiki formatting

Surround text with "nowiki" tags:

Text written as <nowiki>ThisMixedCase</nowiki> will preserve the mixed-case text and not convert the Camel Case into a wiki link.

Displayed web links

Internal links within article are displayed with a sold underline.

External links are displayed with a dotted or dashed underline.

Meta

Tags

Tags are dynamically-created categories or labels that indentify an article. Tags can be helpful in searching for specific content.

No spaces are allowed for tag names. Multiple tags, use tag= on its own line.
Mixed case in tag names won't get converted to wiki links.

tag=tagname
tag=AnotherTagName

The tag command must start at the beginning of a new line.

Blocks

<pblock name="blockname">
... content ...
</pblock>

Content within the block statement will be shown with a different background color. Blocks are tags at the paragraph level while tags are used at the page or article level. Not sure of the block's use for Lewiki, but I'll list it here just in case.

Formatting content

Articles

• Allows for Textile formatting.
• URLs converted to links.
• Table of contents for page created.
• Allows for usage of power commands.

Comments

• URLs converted to links.

Power Commands

Used within article content only. Not available for comments.
Each commands must start at the beginning of a new line.

System defaults are in caps.

• comments = YES|no -- Allow commenting on an article.

• showtitle = YES|no -- Display the article's title to user.

• showauthor = YES|no -- Show the last person who updated the article.

• sidebar = yes|NO -- Show the narrow sidebar on the right side.

• toc = YES|no -- Create a table of contens for the article.

• edit = YES|no -- Allow others to edit the article.

User sign up

User creates a username and password to login with.

User also privides a valid e-mail address. A verification e-mail message will
be sent to user. The e-mail will contain a link to activate the user's account.

RSS

RSS feeds are dynamically created in many areas.

Sort by options:

/cgi-bin/parula.pl/sortby/<sortby option>/rss

• "blogs" - will provide RSS for main site blog postings
• "recentchanges" - list ALL articles by their most recent created or updated date
  for the entire site.
• "id" - list ALL articles by the order they were CREATED.
• "lastcommentdate" - list ALL articles in the order of most recently commented on.
• "commentcount" - list ALL articles in the order of most to least comments.

RSS feed links will be dynamically created for search results, tags, and blocks.

Breadcrumbs

A cookie is used to keep track of the recent articles accessed by the user.

Include templates

A template article can be included into another article by surrounding the

title of the template article with two curly braces.

{{Existing Template Article Title}}

The template will be included into the article at the time the article
is displayed to the user. That way changes to the template will be
seen immediately the next time the article with the include is displayed
to the user.

Article table of contents

By default, a table of contents for the article will be created and included into
the formatted content stored in the database. The TOC will be created based upon
the html heading commands: h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6.

Article redirect

To redirect an article to another article, use:

@<article id>

Example: @123

The at sign needs to appear at the beginning of the line of the article you don't
want displayed. The article id follows the at sign. The user will be shown the article
represented by the id number following the at sign.

The article containing the redirect does not need to have its contents deleted.
The user will see text at the top of the page indicating the user was redirected
from another page. If the user has edit privs, the user can edit the page with
the redirect code, in case the redirect wants to be removed.

Locked article for editing

When an article is selected for edit, the lock column in the database for the
article is updated to prevent another user from editing the article.

The lock will remain in affect for 15 minutes. If the user editing the article
wants to keep the article locked longer, the user has to hit the "Preview"
button. The lock is updated to expire in 15 minutes each time the "Preview"
button is clicked.

After an article is updated, the lock is removed.

If an article is selected for edit, but the user changes her mind and moves
elsewhere on the site, the lock remains until the 15 minute expiration is reached.
Even though the user decided not to edit the article, the lock remains. Another
user wanting to access the locked the article will be given a date and time
when the lock will expire. The user will also be shown how many minutes are left
for the lock and the username of the person who started editing the article.

If an article is selected for edit, but the user moves on elsewhere in the site,
the lock remains, but this user can access the article again for edit, since it
was this user who started the lock.

If the user doesn't want to edit an article, the polite thing to do is to click
the "Cancel" button which will turn off the lock.

Searching

Default search is done on the exact phrase of words typed into the search text field box.

Separate words with OR to match on any word, which means the search is a match if at least one word in the list is found in the article.

Use AND to macth on all words , which means all of the words must appear somewhere within the article.

Your search terms can be in upper or lower case, but the OR and AND must be in caps.

• exact phrase: Lake Erie

• match any word: Toledo OR Monroe OR Bowling Green

• match all words: swamp AND river AND lake

"more" tag

For a blog posting, if the posting contains more than one paragraph, only the first paragraph will be displayed on the main page that shows the blog postings. If the posting is more than one paragraph, the "more" link will shown, so that the entire article can be viewed.

If a blog posting is more than one paragraph long and a user wants more than first paragraph displayed on the blog postings page, use the <more> tag within the article. All text preceding the "more" tag will be displayed on the page of blog postings.

Saving articles

When logged in, the "save" link will appear at the bottom of the article. If you click "save," the article will be saved to your list of favorite articles that you can access on via your profile page. A user cannot access another user's list of favorites. On your list of favorite articles page, the "remove" link will appear next to each article, allowing you to take an article off of your favorite list.

After clicking "save" at the bottom of an article, the article simply reloads. If you click "save" on an article you have already saved, you will get an error message indicating so.