Guide for WTT web system

The WTT web system is based on Dokuwiki. With the WTT-plugin it becomes a complete multi user content management system you can use and edit with groups. Nice.

Important System Infos

Current recommendations and restrictions

  • For page names and folders use only lower case without special chars; also no blanks
  • Uploads of files are currently limited to about 4MB. It depends on a bug in dokuwiki.
  • If you need an upload of bigger files please send the document to
    Ludger Philips or Benjamin Schiller
  • It is only allowed to upload dedicated filetypes like images (.png, .gif, …), sounds (.mp3,…) and .pdf

Page operations

It's easy to add new pages, change existing pages, restore old page versions. Just login into the WTT system. All further things will only work if you are logged in as user.

change pages

If you like to change a page, just:

  • open the page you want change

  • chose “edit this page” in the user menu (top right)

  • after editing save the page.


Learn to make your first steps on the Playground

restore a page

  • navigate to the page you like to have the old version from

  • chose “old revisions” via the right menu
  • chose the version you like and
  • chose “restore” if you like the version you see
  • in that way you may also restore deleted pages!

add a new page

If you like to change a page, just

  • enter into browser the url you like to have i.e. …/wtt/en/url-i-like

  • and “create this page” via the right menu, edit and save it

delete a page

  • If you delete all the text of a page and save the page, it's deleted.

translate a page

If you like to translate a page, just:

  • open the page you want change

  • chose “edit this page” in the user menu (top right)
  • select the content text of the page
  • copy the selected text into clipborad

  • cancel editing page
  • change to language you like
  • change page like described above

Add media files

If you like to add media files like pictures or PDFs just

  • open the page you want change

  • chose “edit this page” in the user menu (top right)

  • then the media manager opens in a separate window
  • click on “Select files…”
  • now select the local media file (look for restrictions)
  • then click the upload button
  • after upload click “Done” button
  • now you will find your media file in the list below
  • click directly on the appropriate media file in the list.
  • the link settings window opens. choose the settings you like and
  • then press “Insert” button

If you added the file f.ex. test.pdf you will find a text like:

{{:playground:user:test.pdf|}}

more details

How to edit a page really

Dokuwiki has a simple Wiki Formatting Syntax. For the main features like headlines, bold or italic font, images and so on use the toolbar on the top of the edit window. It looks like that:
toolbar

For better understanding some quick examples out of Wiki Formatting Syntax

Basic text formatting

DokuWiki supports bold, italic, underlined and monospaced texts. Of course you can combine all these.

DokuWiki supports **bold**, //italic//, __underlined__ and ''monospaced'' texts.
Of course you can **__//''combine''//__** all these.

You can use subscript and superscript, too.

You can use <sub>subscript</sub> and <sup>superscript</sup>, too.

You can mark something as deleted as well.

You can mark something as <del>deleted</del> as well.

Paragraphs and lines

Paragraphs are created from blank lines. If you want to force a newline without a paragraph, you can use two backslashes followed by a whitespace or the end of line.

This is some text with some linebreaks
Note that the two backslashes are only recognized at the end of a line
or followed by
a whitespace \\this happens without it.

This is some text with some linebreaks\\ Note that the
two backslashes are only recognized at the end of a line\\
or followed by\\ a whitespace \\this happens without it.

You should use forced newlines only if really needed.

Basic paragraph formatting

DokuWiki supports

This text will be aligned right.

;;# This text will be aligned right. 
;;#


This text will be aligned left.

#;; This text will be aligned left. 
#;;


This text will be aligned center.

;#; This text will be aligned center. 
;#;


justify this text … Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

The text between the slash-asterisk and asterisk-slash (/*) …. (*/) is hidden (the brackets and points are used so that you can see it here.)

Internal links are created by using square brackets. You can either just give a pagename or use an additional link text.

Internal links are created by using square brackets. You can either just give
a [[pagename]] or use an additional [[pagename|link text]].

Wiki pagenames are converted to lowercase automatically, special characters are not allowed.

You can use namespaces by using a colon in the pagename.

You can use [[some:namespaces]] by using a colon in the pagename.

A link to a special section of a document is possible via an anchor. The section of the anchor has to be devided ba an “#” after the pagename.

A space must be exchanged with a “_”.

This sample links to the previous section Paragraphs and lines

This sample links to the previous section 
[[en:wiki:wtt:guide-to-use#paragraphs_and_lines|Paragraphs and lines]]

To define an anchor anywhere just use '', where 'ancorname' is the name of the anchor.

To send an email to ab@c.de with subject 'this subject' write: send email.

[[ab@c.de?subject=this subject|send email]]

To set the email body 'bodytext', too, write: Paracelsus-Center

<html><a href="mailto:ab@c.de?subject=this subject&body=bodytext">Paracelsus-Center</a></html>

Formating a table

Using the tablewidth plugin: https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:tablewidth

The width has to be specified at the start of a line before the table. The first value is used as width of the table, the rest is for columns. If you want to omit some value use a dash instead. For setting the widths you can use “% from 100%” or “px” or “em” like in a usual CSS file. It's recommend to use the percentage syntax and not the fixed sizes like “100px” or “20em”. more informations about tables...

Code for a table with 5 columns
|< 100% 50px - 5em 10em 10% >|
^ A  ^  B  ^  C  ^  D  ^  E  ^
| 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |
The rendered example
A B C D E
1 2 3 4 5

More informations

For more information about wiki syntax please read Wiki Formatting Syntax. It is worth.