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How to Use This Wiki

Introduction

This part of the BAMLAB website is a wiki: just like Wikipedia, its pages can be created and edited by anybody in the group (once you have an account).

Every wiki on the internet uses a slightly different software, so they work slightly differently. Wikipedia uses the MediaWiki software, TV Tropes uses PmWiki, and Wookieepedia uses a heavily modified MediaWiki.

This wiki, https://bamlab.berkeley.edu/wiki/, uses DokuWiki, so pages are edited with DokuWiki-specific syntax, etc.

How to Get an Editing Account

Right now, this wiki is set up such that only logged-in users can edit pages. But user accounts are shared between the main Wordpress group website and this wiki, so the same username and password work on both. To get a user account, email the webmaster with your desired username and email; they will quickly create an account, and an automated email will be sent to you to set a password. This way, you can more easily edit both the WordPress site (which requires user registration) and this wiki.

Anyone—graduate students, undergraduate students, etc.—is more than welcome.

How to Edit a Page

You should see icons along the right hand side of every page. After logging into the wiki, clicking the top icon should allow you to edit the page.

Editing Syntax

See the DokuWiki syntax guide.

You can also read through the DokuWiki manual.

LaTeX Support

$\LaTeX$ support is available via a MathJax plugin; see the MathJax plugin user manual.

You can do things like this:

$$\int_0^\infty e^{-x}\,dx=1$$

Complex Text Layout

The Wrap plugin offers a plethora of text alignment and page formatting options. See the user manual.

Making and Deleting Pages

To make a new page, edit a pre-existing page to add a link to the not-yet existing page, like so:

[[newpagename|Link Text for New Page]]

Then click on the link to be brought to the empty page, where you can create it with the normal editing button. DokuWiki works like this so that each page is already linked from somewhere else so it can be found again.

To delete a page, delete all its text and save the page. DokuWiki will treat it as deleted.

Moving and Renaming Pages

The Move plugin can rename a page and update references linking to it. See the user manual.

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