To start the "watching" of a complete site :
there are on every page at the bottom right corner ( short over the page option buttons - look on the bottom of this page!) links which says :

"Start watching: site community.wikidot.com | category glossary | this page [?]"

click on "site community.wikidot.com " and this will add the site to your list of watched sites..

Notice:
the setting of a "complete site" on your warching list "removes" all "single PAGES" of this specific site out of the watching list of pages.

by Helmuti_pdorf

Wikidot data forms make it possible to build simple applications into your wikidot sites. A normal wiki page holds unstructured text. A wiki page with a data form holds structured data ("fields"). Structured data is easier to edit, to understand, and to work with in many cases.

Wikidot stores pages in categories and when you use data forms, each page is one "object". So one category can have one data form, that applies to all pages in that category.

To create a new data form, edit the _template page in the category and add a [[form]] section.

See also the documentation on http://www.wikidot.com/doc:data-forms

by Helmuti_pdorf

Modules are prebuilt program-software pieces waiting to be called by your commands in any wiki-page and is replaced in the rendered output of the page with the output of the mini-application.
Some modules have the possibility in the output to be changed to your wished layout, some not;
some big modules reads all your saved pages-content , some only the forum…

(See the documentation on http://www.wikidot.com/doc:modules )

by Helmuti_pdorf

In Wikidot this list of page-titles is created either

• directly on a page with the inserted command-line [[module Backlinks]] - perhaps over a live _template- or
• manual called (and temporary created ) with the usage of "page options buttons"
  • (1.) "+optins" and
  • (2.) "backlinks".

Warning: "external links" (i.e. over [*http://user-gemeinschaft.wikidot.com/glossar:backlinks Backlinks] would be not listed - they are neither found nor stored (in the wiki-database).

Example of a [[module Backlinks]] shows all pages with an inserted link to this page "glossar:backlinks":

by Helmuti_pdorf

There are some more showcases build how it is possible to implement a database on a wikidot site:
http://community-playground.wikidot.com/database-db4-town
http://community-playground.wikidot.com/database-db3-country
http://community-playground.wikidot.com/database-dashboard

by Helmuti_pdorf

In Wikidot, "category" refers to what other wikis call "namespaces". In other wikis, "category" refers to a grouping mechanism where pages with a similar subject are accessible from an index page.
Soft Categories are made in Wikidot, as in MediaWiki, by using Links to category pages.

1. With (internal) "Links" on any page to the "category" page it belongs to.
2. With a module Backlinks module (showing the Children!) on such "category" pages.
3. With a little module ListPages showing all %titles%% which link_to="." ( this single page)

Let's show some cases here (copied from the doc:backlinks-module).

You can use the Backlinks module to make soft categories – simply create pages in the namespace "category": e.g.,

• category:cars
• category:bikes
• etc…

Each of these pages could have a description of the category and the [[module Backlinks]] that would list the pages linking to this category: page:
And within the pages you want to add to specific categories you would put links to these categories, e.g. at the bottom:

Categories:

[[[category:cars ]]], [[[category:bikes]]]

Moreover, if all your category pages, i.e. category:cars, category:bikes etc. include a link to a page called category:all — it is a quick way to put the backlinks module in the category:all too and have a list of all categories.

Note

This glossary entry mixes both notions of categories – soft and hard – by putting soft categories into hard categories.
One could have used category_cars, category_bikes, in this case, which is stored in the default category.

by rurwin

Google Chrome is an open-source web browser developed by Google. You can download the latest version of Google Chrome from the official website.

Google Chrome supports extensions, which are tools that you can use while you are browsing the Internet. One such tool developed for use by Wikidot users is the Wikidot Extender.

by leiger

Any page with a unix name beginning with an underscore is a hidden page in a wikidot site, and these pages are usually used for administration, system or maintenance purposes within a wikidot site's structure.

An example is a category's live template page, which looks something like category:_template.

• By default, these pages do not appear in ListPages module output
• By default, they are not counted as part of the %%total%% in CountPages modules
• They are not auto-numbered, even in an auto-numbered category
• You can not create a hidden page using the NewPage module

The NewPage module has been designed to strip out any underscores that are entered into it's text field, to prevent new users from accidentally creating a hidden page. Therefore to create a hidden page you must use your browser's address bar and enter the intended URL in there. If the hidden page does not exist, a link will appear on the page that will allow you to create it.

by Helmuti_pdorf

YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language (initially "Yet Another Markup Language")

Language used by data forms.

by gerdami

Regular expressions, also referred to as regex or regexp, provide a concise and flexible means for matching strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regex

They are used by the wikidot parser, in general, but you can use them in data forms or in mailform module for entry validation.
Examples:

• /^(19[5-9][0-9]|20[01][0-9])$/ will match any year from 1950 to 2019
• /^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/ will match any valid email address

See also:

• http://www.regular-expressions.info/examples.html
• http://regexlib.com/

by gerdami

Or …. finding cheap ways of flooding the internet with links to sites that one makes an income from..
Or spamming!
- Phil -

by gerdami

Often used with div or span
[[span style="color:red"]]custom //span// element[[/span]]
Learn more at http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_styles.asp

by gerdami

… also who/what/why the fuck?
Source: TheFreeDictionary.com

by gerdami

IMO is often used by pieterh

by gerdami

A Unix-like operating system developed by the free software movement starting in 1984. In 1992, the almost-complete GNU system was combined with the Linux kernel, producing the GNU/Linux system.

Source: www.answers.com/gnu

by gerdami

No, kidding: Content Management System, a way of publishing stuff to a website in a controlled fashion.

by gerdami

Avoid the use of acronyms in your webpages

Abbreviated Code Rarely Or Never Yielding Meaning
A Crazy Reminder Of Names You Misplaced
Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning
Alphabetically Condensed Representation Of Neologically Yclept Magniloquence
Annoyingly Cryptic References Or Names You Make
Automatic Computerized Reorganization Of Names Yielding Meaninglessness
A Completely Random Order Never Yields Meaning
Alphabetic Collocation Reducing Or Numbing Your Memory
Abbreviation By CROpping Names That Yield Meaning
Alphanumeric Code for Remembering Odd Names You Make up
A Concise Recollection Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
Alphabetically Coded Reminder Of Names You Misremember
Abbreviation Code Rendering One Name Yielding Mnemonic
A Concise Reduction Obliquely Naming Your Meaning
Alphabetical Character Rendition Of a Name Yielding a Meaning

Sources:

• http://www.thefreedictionary.com/acronym
• http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/acronym

by gerdami

Tags

Tags are in wikidot.com "extra indexes" for a page, manual keyed in by editors - if they are allowed to do so - by clicking on the tags - link at the page options buttons on bottom of a page.
Every tag can be max 64 characters long, are "space" separated and there is now the limit of tags per page in the summary of all tags together of 500 characters (in the input field).
Over a "Tag cloud" such pages can be found easy. Special tags are starting with an underline: they are not automatically shown in "tag-clouds", but they can be used as special limitations in [[iftag]] conditions. Tags can be used in ListPages Module with generic conditions ( +, - ) too. Known problems are combined words like "New York" which has to be keyed in as "New_York" ( with underscore) or "New-York" ( hyphen) , both is not optimal….

Iftags

iftags is a special condition question - you can use it on every page to "react" on tags - set up on the page used..
it has the forms:
[[iftags +tag1 -tag2 tag3]] ... [[/iftags]] where the +/-"tag#" stands for the requested tag-indexes.
+ before a tagname means - this tag has to be existent, is a must - works like a tag without a modifier
- before a tagname means - this tag must not exist.
and a tag without such modifiers is a must ( like the +tagxyz)

Examples:
Have a look:
http://helmuti-pdorf.wikidot.com/iftags-test or
http://helmuti-pdorf.wikidot.com/iftags-test1 or
http://sandbox.wikidot.com/iftags-test2

there is the code from iftags-test:

 [[iftags news]] ++ Yes, it //is// tagged with ``news'' [[/iftags]] .. .. [[iftags include]] ++ Yes, it //is// tagged with ``include'' +++ Therefore here is the page included "comments-test1": ---- [[div class="error-block"]] Included page "comments-test1" does not exist ([/comments-test1/edit/true create it now]) [[/div]] ---- [[/iftags]] 

Button Set Tags

button for tag update

There is in the wikidot syntax the "button for tag update" set tags available. with a click on such rendered button the tag value is set by predefined values (better "redefined" - the old values perhaps cleared before and so on ; see the documentation: http://www.wikidot.com/doc:wiki-syntax#toc62 ).

Here is an example of the usage with two (flip/flop) buttons;
( you can try to use them - switch from "_open" to "_completed" an vice versa)

Here is the code for this example:

 [[table]] [[row]] [[cell]] [[iftags -_completed]] [[div style="border:2px solid green; text-align:center; width:200px;"]] [[button set-tags -_open +_completed text="Confirm COMPLETED"]] (set tags -_open +_completed) [[/div]] [[/iftags]] [[/cell]] [[cell]] [[iftags -_open]] [[div style="border:2px solid red; text-align:center; width:200px;"]] [[button set-tags +_open -_completed text="Confirm OPEN"]] (set tags +_open -_completed) [[/div]] [[/iftags]] [[/cell]] [[/row]] [[/table]] 

Note : in a (live) _template page you can use the %%dataform%% -values for such tags- updates!

( eitehr raw or data - se the example ikn the source on our playground : http://community-playground.wikidot.com/task:1
and in their _template page: http://community-playground.wikidot.com/task:_template

by Helmuti_pdorf

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by gerdami

Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA. People who like this looser usage argue that not all TLAs have three letters, just as not all four-letter words have four letters. One also hears of ‘ETLA’ (Extended Three-Letter Acronym, pronounced /ee tee el ay/) being used to describe four-letter acronyms; the terms ‘SFLA’ (Stupid Four-Letter Acronym), ‘LFLA’ (Longer Four Letter Acronym), and VLFLA (Very Long Five Letter Acronym) have also been reported.
Source: http://www.answers.com/tla

Examples of ETLA and VLFLA

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This is often heard by programmers try to fix IE6 bugs in css code. Usually within the phrase
If "DAZ" don't whiten it
And "OMO" won't brighten it
BUGGGER IT!

or use the alternative
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_{(apologies to Fred Wetlock)}

by gerdami