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30 March 2008 - Craig Macomber
I just setup a Bug Management System here on the community. It should provide much better navigability than the old forum category.
Backlinks
module...
EnterDateHere - Helmuti_pdorf
I just setup a deletion warning page Include:Candidate for delete,
to be included in articles on our community site showing very wrong text / content.
There is a...
13 Oct 2007- gerdami
For those interested in importing simple Excel tables into Wikidot, see HowTo:import-simple-excel-tables-into-wikidot, I have upgraded this utility.
Now, horizontal...
22 Sep 2007 - gerdami
I just added a new category featured: which holds pages about featured wikidot websites.
Feel free to ask you site to be quoted in this featured sites list.
The technique...
29 Sep 2007 - gerdami
The Handbook team is proud to welcome kawina as the first Portuguese contibutor to the Wikidot's Handbook.
kawina is a Brazilian linguist interested in the documentation of...
1 Aug 2007 - gerdami
This Community website for Wikidot users is now one year old.
Happy birthday.
Read Launch of the Community Wikidot.com website
Backlinks
module...
11 March 2008 - gerdami
Helmuti_pdorf just finished his long article on Wikidot on Wikipedia on 10 March.
He treated both the software part and the wiki-farm part.
By the end of the day, despite...
30 Dec 2007 - gerdami
Thanks to achille's help, the Italian Version of the Wikidot Handbook is really taking off.
Benvenuto! Questo è il manuale di wikidot.
Wikidot è un sito web...
1 Aug 2006 - michal frackowiak
This is a site created for the Wikidot.com User Community.
Check out our Community Forums!
Backlinks
module "forum/ForumCommentsModule"
Start blog
Add one...
18 Jul 2007- gerdami
The wikidot Handbook was started by hartnell on 18 Jul 2007 :
"The wikidot handbook is our attempt to make the docs more user-friendly for the complete novice. We need...
13 Sep 2007 - gerdami
Wikidot has currently no perfect blogging feature, i.d. a collection of pages ordered descending by creation date, with backlinks and comments modules in the bottom....
31 Dec 2007 - Oli
I find that there a three major steps in making a successful wiki:
Find a subject to create a wiki on - Most of the general purpose wikis have already been tried and have...
28 Nisan 2008- BerBuz
Announcing the Turkish version of the Handbook
Sevgili arkadaşlar hoş geldiniz,
WikiDOT sitesinin el kiatabı çesitli dillere çevrilmekte, bir de Türkçe örneği...
15 May 2008 - Phil Chett
I just setup a WishList here on the community. It should provide much better navigability than the old forum category.
Please rate the wishes to put them on top of...
Category bugs
Bugs
Tags
Description
There are the following two bugs in the base CSS code —
Number 1: One of the image URL's in /files—common/theme/base/css/odialog.css refers to test.wikidot.com...
Bugs
Tags
Description
When I use a div to enclose a large section of my page (for style formatting), the edit-section function no longer recognises headings within it and claims that there...
Bugs
Tags
Description
If a foreign url contains a special character such as a single quote, the wikidot parser stops evaluating the source url at the first single quote.
Example:
[[iframe...
Bugs
Tags
Description
When an edit lock expires due to 900 seconds inactivity on a private wiki, you are logged out — but since you are in the middle of editing the page, you cannot leave...
Bugs
Tags
Description
Pictures can be er… "borrowed" from Private sites
How to Reproduce
The picture above is copied from a wikidot site that is set to "Private"
Browsers
All
Has...
Bugs
Tags
Description
In the forums we have a "hidden group"
yet by a click of a button this are viewable by anyone.
i can see good reasons for having a "hidden" group. But surely these...
Bugs
Tags
Description
When a gallery is located on the right of a left floating division, the Wrap-around occurs on an image outside the document border, some thumbnails are not visible....
Category fixed
Bugs
Tags
This bug is fixed !
iframe embed
Description
Embeded local HTML page is displayed as HTML source.
Fixed!
This Bug has been through a number of fixes :-). However it should now...
Bugs
Tags
This bug is fixed !
Description
It has been noticed that any file greater than 7.9 mb will not upload. the documantation says that files up to 10 meg can be uploaded
How to...
Bugs
Tags
This bug is fixed !
Description
When using templates on your site (pages with template category), creating a new page presents the "Initial template" dropdown box with each...
Bugs
Tags
This bug is fixed !
Description
If you can read what follows (i.e. between the 2 lines), there is a privacy bug with module FrontForum which displays threads from my private...
Category help
ManageSite Module
The ManageSite module creates the interface that you use to manage your wiki. By default it can be found on this page : your-wiki.wikidot.com/admin:manage
The ManageSite module...
In this respect, categories are like MediaWiki namespaces, but better and more useful. Unfortunately, they are not much like traditional categories. Your best option for categories at the present...
Uploading Files
Files are uploaded to individual pages and considered "attached" to that page.
To upload a file :
Click on files at the bottom of a page.
Choose a file to upload.
Click a button...
This page is a stub. You can help us improve Wikidot by expanding it.
This page lists the stubs for the help section. You can help improve Wikidot by expanding them.
How and When to Improve a Stub
If the page has a mispelling or grammar error.
If the text is...
Iframe Syntax
[[iframe source attributes]]
Source
The source of an iframe is a url such as http://www.somewebsite.com/somepage.htm .
Attributes
Name
Does
Allowed Values
align
align the...
Basic Include Syntax
[[include pagename]]
Passing Variables in an Include
Related Pages
Backlinks
These pages link back to this one. You may find them helpful.
Top Menu Bar - nav:top
The top menu bar is located at the top of your wiki page.
It is sometimes called nav:top because the source page for nav:top is located...
Private Wikis at Wikidot
Requested Features
Partial Privacy
A wiki page that is private while the rest of the wiki remains public.
A forum category that can be made private while the rest of the...
Introduction
This is a list of requested features. Each one has a small discussion along with it.
Accessibility
Cell Phone Accessibility
There is no current plan to make wikidot wikis available on...
RSS allows you to import content to your wiki from RSS Feeds.
It also allows you to syndicate your content to other wikis.
Third, it allows you to keep informed of changes to wikis.
Information...
Quick Tables
Styled Tables
Center a Table
You can center a styled table using inline CSS.
[[table style="width:70%;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;border:1px solid...
Tags can be added to each page and then all of the tags can be displayed in almost any location of your wiki except nav:top.1
Default Tags
A new wiki is started with no tags whatsoever. However, a...
Templates are like forms that you can load into a new page. The purpose of a template is to keep a similar content layout where needed. One example of a template is a blank recipe template that...
Changing Themes
You can change (by switching) your theme of your wiki in your site manager.
To change your theme :
Go to the site manager.
Click on Appearance in the left menu.
Click on...
The toc lists the headings of a page.
CSS
The toc can be changed using CSS through these CSS selectors.
CSS Selector
Selects
#toc
Entire table of contents.
#toc-action-bar
Part of toc that...
Please excuse, it will be a couple of days before this section seems worthwhile.
Administration
Administration
Private Wikis
Content
Files - upload files and link or display them on...
Category howto
This page is a Candidate for delete.
Here is the wrong place for the content. Could be this was done by an error or a quick intermediate save for a long text.
You should copy ( save) the text...
This HowTo describes step by step how to add a customised Google search engine to a wikidot webpage. This is also a simple example of the use of the [[embed]] function.
The Result
This customised...
This document explains how to add admins or moderators to your site by changing the options of some members of your site.
1) If You are logged in with Your User Id You will find on your site under...
In my quest to "remove" the Account thingie, since it's way too hard to explain how to use it to someone who can barely navigate the main menus, I needed a way to let my users change their...
Not really a HowTo, but gerdami found this post by scottplan interesting and copypasta here
While I'm patiently waiting for my css savior to come along and respond to my posts, I'm slowly...
This howto describes how to (effectively) use RSS feeds from Wikidot.com to be notified about things you care about ;-)
Introduction
Today more and more web services offer RSS feeds as a...
Samples
From yellow to red
From blue to green
From red to black
Code
++ From yellow to red
[[module TagCloud minFontSize="80%" maxFontSize="200%" minColor="255,255,0" maxColor="255,0,0"...
Wikidot has currently no perfect blogging feature, i.d. a collection of pages ordered descending by creation date, with backlinks and comments modules in the bottom. However, before the release of...
Creating a Blog, or a news display is easy when you have administrative privileges. All you have to do is add a forum category to the forum, and a Frontforum to the page where you want the blog....
Difference Between "Journal" and "Blog"
While some may use the words journal and blog to refer to the same thing, I see them as two different animals. Blogs typically are used to express ideas,...
The most obvious navigation system is the parent-child relationship which produces automatic breadcrumbs navigation at the top of the page. This article shows two different techniques which can...
This document is a work-in-progress. Please contribute if you wish!
This is a howto that describes a way to create your own appearance for your site.
Introduction
Although Wikidot.com already...
This document describes how to set up a forum for a Site - step-by-step.
Introduction
Every Site on Wikidot can contain an autonomous, fully-featured forum. The forum is also used to add such...
1. Block spammer
The First thing to do, when some dear nice chappy (or chapess) starts playing silly buggers is to block them.
At the moment only admins can do this. This is done by going to
site...
The following has not been fully tested. I'm hoping someone who has managed to break their forums, use this, and let us know if it works! (please?)
Avoiding &^%$ Ups
From bitter experience i...
FrontForum — %%date%% variable
According to the module FrontForum documentation, the custom-format %%date%% variable supports a format parameter that “prints posting date with a custom format...
What you need, to make the above work, is a Forum thread or a Per Page Discussion thread1, that has been created around the time your wiki has been created. Then you can display the number of days...
It can be difficult to understand the concept of "Categories," but there is a magic clue that clearly shows how categories are set up. This clue is found in "site manager," under "themes" and...
How to use templates.
What are they?
These are pre - prepared pages, pro - formers, forms that you may wish your wikidot contributers to use.
An excellent example of a template can be found...
Some example of how to embellish your text in your wiki. These have all been swiped from the forums, to put them all in one place. Please feel free to add more.
Text Size
Size of text in a Page...
This document is a "work-in-progress". If you want to contribute - feel free to do it!
This is a short guide how to make a successful Wiki Site and promote it.
Idea for the Site
Think on a...
This page explains how you can send e-mails (like invitations) to your friends and/or contacts.
1. Where to go to Send E-Mail Invitations
If you have not done so yet, you should create Your Own...
Or to be more precise, what they do!
Forums Post option buttons
Below any post you make, there are two buttons: reply | options
Reply
Use this to directly reply to the specific post you are...
Or to be more precise, what they do!
Page Options.
These are found at the bottom of every page and can be switched off (set to be not shown) in the site manager / permissions per every category and...
This HowTo describes how to import simple tables from Excel to Wikidot with a simple concatenation or with a VBA code.
foldunfold
Table of Contents
The Spreadsheet
A. Simple and stupid...
How To Include Only a Part of Another Page
Create your included page with “{$partn}” and “[!-- --]” markers (where n=1, 2, …) at the beginning and end of each block that you want to be...
How To Include Only a Part of Another Page (Tricky Version)
This is a more sophisticated version of How To Include Only a Part of Another Page as it allows you to use a page
both on its own (i. e....
Article
Discussion
foldunfold
Table of Contents
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
What if you already have existing pages that you want staff members to edit?
Scenario. You want to let some...
Please - do not forget to set the "parent" ä page - by selecting one of the "howtotopics:" pages!
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#the-cascade more over...
Please note that this guide is incomplete, but still very useful. The empty sections will be filled in soon.
foldunfold
Table of Contents
What is an interface?
About users
Definition the Optimum...
Please - do not forget to set the "parent" ä page - by selecting one of the "howtotopics:"...
Add howto
Howto Topic Tree
TagCloud
Full List howtotopics
Full List howtos
This document explains how to logout / logoff from Wikidot.com and shows a little short-hand menu hidden at a little icon right from your "my_account" link at the top right side of the page.
If You...
Description
A nice way to add advanced layout control using the [[table]] tag. The example uses the style attribute for the whole table and particular cells to adjust layout. Using [[row]] and...
You can play music or listen to radios within wikidot pages thanks to Google Gadgets.
Google Gadgets For Your Webpage
Go to http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open
Search for "music" or...
Is it possible to rename an existing WikiDot.com account ?
For Example:
I would like to change my site [http://movie-trailer-mania.wikidot.com] to another name.
I've spent quite a while looking...
Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up a Custom Domain
So I’m really happy with my wikidot site, ABC.wikidot.com1. But I’d really like it to appear in its own domain: XYZ.com. Although my site will...
How to Set Up an Infobox
Follow these steps, if you'd like to set up an infobox that displays only those attributes that have a value — all other attributes are omitted.
Step by Step
Create an...
How to Set Up an Infobox — Exclude Specific Attributes
Follow these steps, if you'd like to set up an infobox that doesn't display those attributes that a user marks “to be excluded”. Other...
This will be in the near future a short check list for a new site. Not to forget any step necessary…
1. Site creation - the beginning of a new site.
2. Save your start page - is a good idea...
This HOWTO describes ways to add statistics to your Site — including hit counters, visitors tracking etc.
Introduction
It is always nice to know how many people visit your Site. No matter...
Subscribe via Feedblitz
Click on links below to subscribe to Site and Forum changes via Feedblitz emails.
You will be prompted by Feedblitz to enter your email address…
No prior registration is...
This is my first attempt at trying to understand CSS code and custom themes.
There are a number of references to custom...
From the main documentation at http://www.wikidot.com/doc:modules it seems that the module SiteChanges is the answer. Indeed, it is not alone to do the job.
Recent forum threads and posts are also...
This howto describes how to include a logo within the CSS design for your Site.
Introduction
At the moment there is no way to "just upload" an...
Page Ratings
Here is how you let people rate pages in specific categories or for the whole site:
In the Site Manager, enable page ratings for the...
Category howtotopics
Category include
Add one {$type} page
If you want to "change" a bug to status "fixed" than "include" at the top of the bugs-page the line: [[include include:bugs-fixed]]
Bugs
Tags
This bug is fixed !
This page is a Candidate for delete.
Here is the wrong place for the content. Could be this was done by an error or a quick intermediate save for a long text.
You should copy ( save) the text...
Answers
Merriam-Webster
OneLook
Wikipedia
[[iframe http://www.answers.com/{$term} width="100%" height="550" frameborder="0"]]
[[iframe http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/{$term}...
Click below to edit page {$page} from site {$site}
{$WikiTitle}
Contents: {$WikiContent}
Founder: User {$WikiFounder} can not be found.
Language: {$WikiLanguage}
Wikidot features: {$WikidotFeatures}
Rate this site
Backlinks
module...
If you want to "change" a bug to status "fixed" than "include" at the top of the bugs-page the line: [[include include:bugs-fixed]]
Backlinks
module "forum/ForumCommentsModule"
{$part1}
This is Part 1
Four lines
One
Two
Three
Four
{$part2}
This is Part 2
Four more lines
One
Two
Three
Four
Some text that's always there.
The first block of text that is optional.
Another optional block of text
Name:
Its name
Option:
an optional row in a table
Player:
Any
Heroes is a fan reference wiki and community for Heroes fans. We are seeking people interested in chatting about Heroes on our forums.
Handbook is a multilingual community project to create a...
Michal has updated the ChangeLog. Everyone be happy. Michal has spoken.
Michal has posted more news in This Thread. He mentions Wikidot 2.0. Look near the bottom.
The Zombie Hartnell says :...
When in doubt, use webbish. :)
The wikidot server just burped, or Michal has just updated something. The last time I saw such a burp Michal had updated the login system. If true, it could take a...
{$cereal}
[http://images.google.com/images?q={$cereal} Google "{$cereal}"]
Start {$type}
Add one {$type} page
Tags
Name:
{$name}
Name:
{$name}
Player:
{$player}
Origin:
{$origin}
[[table]][[row]][[cell]]Name:[[/cell]]
[[cell]]{$name}[[/cell]]
[[/row]]
.
.
[[/table]]
User {$username} can not be found.. Please visit his/her userPage.
Start {$type}
Add one {$type} page
Tags
Wish List
Tags
Category template
EnterDateHere - User EnterUserName can not be found.
EnterYourTextHere
Backlinks
module "forum/ForumCommentsModule"
Start blog
Add one blog page
Tags
Bugs
Tags
Description
How to Reproduce
Browsers
Has bug
Works correctly
Workarounds
Contact
Rate this Bug
Rate the urgency of this bug. If you think it is more urgent and important than it's...
EnterWordShortDescriptionHere
Answers
Merriam-Webster
OneLook
Wikipedia
//
Start dictionaries
Add one dictionaries page
Tags
wikititleasdisplayed
Contents: whatthiswikiisabout
Founder: User wikidotusername can not be found.
Language: English
Wikidot features: {$WikidotFeatures}
Rate this site
Backlinks
module...
EnterYourTextHere
Start Glossary
Add one Glossary page
Tags
User ????????? can not be found. ??-??-????
Your text here.
Back to the Guestbook
Requested Features
Known Bugs
Related Pages
Backlinks
These pages link back to this one. You may find them helpful.
Please - do not forget to set the "parent" ä page - by selecting one of the "howtotopics:" pages!
Who I am
Hi, I am User YourActualScreenName can not be found.
My contributions
List of pages I have contributed to:
Start User
Add one User page
Tags
Wish List
Tags
Description
Links to forum Posts
Category User
Who I am
Hi, I am Craig Macomber
My contributions
List of pages I have contributed to:
… and also the new community bugs management system
Start User
Add one User page
Tags
Who I am
Hi, I am ErichSteinboeck
My contributions
List of pages I have contributed to:
Start User
Add one User page
Tags
Who I am
Hi, I am gerdami.
My contributions
Beside the Wikidot Handbook, this is a list of pages I have contributed to:
and also the start-series
Start Blog
Start Dictionaries
Start...
Who I am
Hi, I am Goon
My contributions
List of pages I have contributed to:
Start User
Add one User page
Tags
Who I am
Hi, I am Helmuti_pdorf
My contributions
Beside the Wikidot Handbook, this is a list of pages I have contributed to:
Start User
Add one User page
Tags
Who I am
Hi, I am KimBooSan
My contributions
List of pages I have contributed to:
Start User
Add one User page
Tags
Who I am
Hi, I am michal frackowiak
My contributions
In addition to Wikidot itself,
list of pages I have contributed to:
my del.icio.us
Start User
Add one User page
Tags
Who I am
Hi, I am Phil Chett
My contributions
List of pages I have contributed to:
Start User
Add one User page
Tags
Who I am
Hi, I am scottplan
My contributions
List of pages I have contributed to:
Start User
Add one User page
Tags
Category Wishlist
Wish List
Tags
Could you please make it possible for one to embed an "AddThis" bookmark widget? A sample code is given below:
<!-- AddThis Bookmark Button BEGIN -->
<a...
Wish List
Tags
Description
A basic Backup feature exists for the moment.
However, no Restore and no Import (of a part or a whole set of pages to a new wiki) exist.
Links to forum...
Wish List
Tags
Description
I would like to have the option to count all the pages within the same category. This can be very useful for those wikis that are supposed to be encyclopedias —...
Wish List
Tags
Description
In the site manager, we have a grid that we can change to provide edit permissions that we can change per category. I would really like an additional row that...
Wish List
Tags
Description
It would be nice to display a random page when clicking on a menu link
with a list of categories of pages not to be displayed (nav: system: …)
with an option...
Wish List
Tags
Description
A feature that would be welcome is to make tag changes visible in the history tab. As of now, there's no way of knowing if tags have been changed or removed, and...
Wish List
Tags
Description
Instead of having to register for "wikidot", then register to the site that i wish to be a member of. Is it possible to register for the site i wish to become a...
Wish List
Tags
Description
Whilst for the "power user, a WYSIWYG editor isn't preferred, for the occasional user, who might pop in from time to time to collaborate on specific wikis may find...
Category _default
Bell, J.; Hewish, A.; Pilkington, J. D. H.; Scott, P. F.; and Collins, R. A. Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source. Nature 217, 709, 1968.
Bibliography
1. Bibliograph-bell
2. Guy, R. K. Modular Difference Sets and Error Correcting Codes. §C10 in Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 118-121,...
You can perhaps "hide" the bibliography (the included) under collapsible block?
http://snippets.wikidot.com/code:collapsible-text-block
The first pulsar was observed by J. Bell and A. Hewish [1]....
Bugs
Tags
This is the main page for the community driven bug management system.
bugs can only be entered by community site members and admins to stop "cant see the wood for the trees"1...
Welcome to the Wikidot Community Portal chat room. Any wiki on wikidot can have a chat room exactly like this one.
You do not have to sign up or register to use this service. (unless you want to...
You can help us improve the our wikidot help section by collaborating on these pages.
Notes for the collaboration can be found on the talk page for each help page.
RSS
Templates
What is a wiki...
Please change this page according to your needs
This page exists to catalogue misspellings and bad grammar on official wikidot pages that can't be changed by the community. When you find such a misspelling or grammar error, please post it here...
Page title
Revised by
Revision number
Revision date
Feedblitz: {$site} site changes
Feedblitz: {$site} new forum threads
Feedblitz: {$site} new forum posts
If you want to stay informed about new posts on our forum and for some reason you do not want to use RSS feeds (this is ok, not everybody uses this) — you can subscribe to receive a...
Page which holds pictures or screenshots used by forum posts.
redirect
image size
[[image forumpics/tech-group.jpg size="square"]]
[[image forumpics/tech-group.jpg size="thumbnail"]]
[[image...
So, you want to create your own wiki? Whether you are a professional wiki creator who makes a living creating wikis, a hobbist who just wants a space for your ideas, or you have a business that...
You will be redirected to http://handbook.wikidot.com
http://community.wikidot.com/handbook/noredirect/true to edit this page again.
Community Help Pages
How To
Other Resources
Documentation
If you are allowed to edit pages in this Site, simply click on edit button at the bottom of the page. This will open an editor with a toolbar pallette with options.
To create a link to a new page,...
corn
Google "corn"
wheat
Google "wheat"
tree
Google "tree"
[[include include:picture cereal=corn]]
[[include include:picture cereal=wheat]]
[[include include:picture...
list of wikis
wiki-grimoire
temporary storage for Wikidot logos…
Help !
Help might be found in other specific Wikidot Community edited websites:
Online...
Things Hartnell Could Be Working on Sooner or Later
Resources. Resources, Resources
Avatars.
Styled Tables
Infoboxes (check out Set Up an Infobox)
I meant Infobox styles. :)
Common Templates...
User {$username} can not be found.. Please visit his/her userPage.
Wikidot Community Portal Site Map :
Start Blog
Add one Blog page
Tags
This showcase aims at demonstrating the use of template, include, tabview, tags per category
Start Dictionaries
Add one Dictionaries page
Tags
Site of the Week
Karma-lab wiki
Karm-lab is about General information about the Korg OASYS, M3, Triton and Karma workstations, the KARMA Technology they may feature, and KARMA Software...
Start Glossary
Add one Glossary page
Tags
List of Active Community Users
If you want to add your name here,
1 enter your name in the box to the right
2 sign your major contributions to pages with
[[include include:signature...
deleted page
moved to center-wikidot.com: talk
Well done, Phil.
Click below to edit page test from site community
If you have an existing website you would like to transfer to wiki format using the free wikidot hosting, hartnell will be pleased to help you personally and try to make the process as painless as...
Holds files for tutorials on the forum.
Recent Forum activity
Recent topics
Most active topics (last week)
Recent posts (+more)
This is a site created for the Wikidot.com User Community.
Check out our Community Forums!
Want to...
According to Wikipedia, the world largest wiki site:
A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit...
Wikidot is both a free wiki host and the software it uses. That's the technical explanation. For the layman, wikidot is simply the best website, collaboration and community building tool you could...
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.labpixies.com/lib/lp_gadget_syndication.php?_gadgetid=1&_frame_color=dark_orange"> </script>
Introduction
This FAQ is for the most frequently asked questions asked in the Wikidot Community forums. If you can't find your the answer to your question here, then please ask your question on...
Wish List
Tags
Wish list. or "I would really like" will be collated and/ or added here.
They can only be added if you have the right permissions.
If you dont have these permisions please...
This is mainly a page that holds some files for the forum
zut/WikidotForEver.ppt
zut/WikidotForEver
All categories
This page is a Candidate for delete.
Here is the wrong place for the content. Could be this was done by an error or a quick intermediate save for a long text.
You should copy ( save) the text...
This HowTo describes step by step how to add a customised Google search engine to a wikidot webpage. This is also a simple example of the use of the [[embed]] function.
The Result
This customised...
This document explains how to add admins or moderators to your site by changing the options of some members of your site.
1) If You are logged in with Your User Id You will find on your site under...
In my quest to "remove" the Account thingie, since it's way too hard to explain how to use it to someone who can barely navigate the main menus, I needed a way to let my users change their...
Add one {$type} page
The address bar is the part of your browser where you type a web address ( or called URL) and hit ENTER to go to a website.
In wikidot.com you can create a new page by typing in the whole web...
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Could you please make it possible for one to embed an "AddThis" bookmark widget? A sample code is given below:
<!-- AddThis Bookmark Button BEGIN -->
<a...
Toda la documentacion relativa al modulo de Grado superior
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ManageSite Module
The ManageSite module creates the interface that you use to manage your wiki. By default it can be found on this page : your-wiki.wikidot.com/admin:manage
The ManageSite module...
Tales of Aeldaria
Contents: Tales of Aeldaria is a newly started open source RPG project. The game is being developed in python/pygame and will feature isometric graphics and oldschool pen &...
Wiki Architecture
Contents: Is Open Source Architecture Possible?
Founder: arch1k
Language: English
Wikidot features: Woaw, fichtre, que c'est beau. Customized theme. I like the fluo blue fonts,...
Not really a HowTo, but gerdami found this post by scottplan interesting and copypasta here
While I'm patiently waiting for my css savior to come along and respond to my posts, I'm slowly...
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Description
A basic Backup feature exists for the moment.
However, no Restore and no Import (of a part or a whole set of pages to a new wiki) exist.
Links to forum...
Backwardation, or inverted market, is situation of the futures market where prices for later deliveries are cheaper than spot prices or font-month prices. Opposite of...
Bugs
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Description
There are the following two bugs in the base CSS code —
Number 1: One of the image URL's in /files—common/theme/base/css/odialog.css refers to test.wikidot.com...
This howto describes how to (effectively) use RSS feeds from Wikidot.com to be notified about things you care about ;-)
Introduction
Today more and more web services offer RSS feeds as a...
UK Hang Gliding Competitions
Contents: This site is about UK Hang Gliding Competitions
Founder: Phil Chett
Language: English
Wikidot features: Customized theme, imported Excel tables
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Bell, J.; Hewish, A.; Pilkington, J. D. H.; Scott, P. F.; and Collins, R. A. Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source. Nature 217, 709, 1968.
Bibliography
1. Bibliograph-bell
2. Guy, R. K. Modular Difference Sets and Error Correcting Codes. §C10 in Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 118-121,...
You can perhaps "hide" the bibliography (the included) under collapsible block?
http://snippets.wikidot.com/code:collapsible-text-block
The first pulsar was observed by J. Bell and A. Hewish [1]....
EnterDateHere - User EnterUserName can not be found.
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module "forum/ForumCommentsModule"
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If you want to "change" a bug to status "fixed" than "include" at the top of the bugs-page the line: [[include include:bugs-fixed]]
30 March 2008 - Craig Macomber
I just setup a Bug Management System here on the community. It should provide much better navigability than the old forum category.
Backlinks
module...
Bugs
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This is the main page for the community driven bug management system.
bugs can only be entered by community site members and admins to stop "cant see the wood for the trees"1...
Bugs
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Description
How to Reproduce
Browsers
Has bug
Works correctly
Workarounds
Contact
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Rate the urgency of this bug. If you think it is more urgent and important than it's...
Bugs
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This bug is fixed !
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I just setup a deletion warning page Include:Candidate for delete,
to be included in articles on our community site showing very wrong text / content.
There is a...
This page is a Candidate for delete.
Here is the wrong place for the content. Could be this was done by an error or a quick intermediate save for a long text.
You should copy ( save) the text...
This page shows by module backlinks all candidates for deletion.
If you want to add one page to this list you need to insert at the top of the candidate the line:
[[include...
Bugs
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This bug is fixed !
iframe embed
Description
Embeded local HTML page is displayed as HTML source.
Fixed!
This Bug has been through a number of fixes :-). However it should now...
Bugs
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This bug is fixed !
Description
It has been noticed that any file greater than 7.9 mb will not upload. the documantation says that files up to 10 meg can be uploaded
How to...
In this respect, categories are like MediaWiki namespaces, but better and more useful. Unfortunately, they are not much like traditional categories. Your best option for categories at the present...
Technical:
a category (in a wiki often called namespace) is under normal circumstances known as the first part of the page name - the partial name before the colon (:) in the page name. You will...
Phil Chett
02-01-2008
Changes to template made at request of gerdami
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[[module TagCloud minFontSize="80%" maxFontSize="200%" minColor="255,255,0" maxColor="255,0,0"...
Welcome to the Wikidot Community Portal chat room. Any wiki on wikidot can have a chat room exactly like this one.
You do not have to sign up or register to use this service. (unless you want to...
Coffeetime
Contents: Ever wondered if there is a place to share your coffee passion? The Coffeetime Wiki is an ultimate resource for those who love real coffee. This community-driven website...
You can help us improve the our wikidot help section by collaborating on these pages.
Notes for the collaboration can be found on the talk page for each help page.
RSS
Templates
What is a wiki...
Comic Book Wiki
Contents: A site about Comic Books … [Ken, please develop a bit]
Founder: Ken Kash
Language: English
Wikidot features: RSS news included, customized teme, tabs
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Wikidot.com Community Website
Contents: Community website
Founder: michal frackowiak
Language: English
Wikidot features: FAQ, blog, include-template
Rate this site
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Please change this page according to your needs
This page exists to catalogue misspellings and bad grammar on official wikidot pages that can't be changed by the community. When you find such a misspelling or grammar error, please post it here...
Who I am
Hi, I am Craig Macomber
My contributions
List of pages I have contributed to:
… and also the new community bugs management system
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Wikidot has currently no perfect blogging feature, i.d. a collection of pages ordered descending by creation date, with backlinks and comments modules in the bottom. However, before the release of...
Creating a Blog, or a news display is easy when you have administrative privileges. All you have to do is add a forum category to the forum, and a Frontforum to the page where you want the blog....
Difference Between "Journal" and "Blog"
While some may use the words journal and blog to refer to the same thing, I see them as two different animals. Blogs typically are used to express ideas,...
The most obvious navigation system is the parent-child relationship which produces automatic breadcrumbs navigation at the top of the page. This article shows two different techniques which can...
Cascading Style Sheets.
In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common...
While I'm patiently waiting for my css savior to come along and respond to my Posts, I'm slowly figuring some of this out.
For instance, I've learned that many web designers don't have much nice to...
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Just thought I would try the guestbook, hello from the UK
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Definitive Socionics Info
Contents: Primarily exposed by Lithuanian Psychologist Aushra Augusta in the 1970's — Socionics integrates previous works from Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Antoni...
Namn: Roran
Kön: Man
Ras: Människa
Ålder: 25
Utseende: Halv långt blont hår, normal längd med lysande klarblå ögon och stiliga ansiktsdrag.
Bakgrund: Roran föddes på fullmånens natt i...
This document is a work-in-progress. Please contribute if you wish!
This is a howto that describes a way to create your own appearance for your site.
Introduction
Although Wikidot.com already...
Answers
Merriam-Webster
OneLook
Wikipedia
[[iframe http://www.answers.com/{$term} width="100%" height="550" frameborder="0"]]
[[iframe http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/{$term}...
EnterWordShortDescriptionHere
Answers
Merriam-Webster
OneLook
Wikipedia
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A collection of words well known by people who decided to explain them to ignorants.
Answers
Merriam-Webster
OneLook
Wikipedia
//
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The HTML <div> tag defines a division/section in a document.
It is used to group block-elements to format them with styles.
Sample of use in Wikidot:
[[div style="line-height:...
Dreamlinux
Contents: Welcome to the Dreamlinux wiki! Dreamlinux is a distribution of the Linux operating system. It features Kanotix's excellent hardware detection, Morphix's modular structure...
Page title
Revised by
Revision number
Revision date
Click below to edit page {$page} from site {$site}
Bugs
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Description
When I use a div to enclose a large section of my page (for style formatting), the edit-section function no longer recognises headings within it and claims that there...
Who I am
Hi, I am ErichSteinboeck
My contributions
List of pages I have contributed to:
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13 Oct 2007- gerdami
For those interested in importing simple Excel tables into Wikidot, see HowTo:import-simple-excel-tables-into-wikidot, I have upgraded this utility.
Now, horizontal...
Frequently Asked Questions. Hopefully, also Frequently Answered Questions with the Wikidot Community.
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{$WikiTitle}
Contents: {$WikiContent}
Founder: User {$WikiFounder} can not be found.
Language: {$WikiLanguage}
Wikidot features: {$WikidotFeatures}
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module...
wikititleasdisplayed
Contents: whatthiswikiisabout
Founder: User wikidotusername can not be found.
Language: English
Wikidot features: {$WikidotFeatures}
Rate this site
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module...
22 Sep 2007 - gerdami
I just added a new category featured: which holds pages about featured wikidot websites.
Feel free to ask you site to be quoted in this featured sites list.
The technique...
Feedblitz: {$site} site changes
Feedblitz: {$site} new forum threads
Feedblitz: {$site} new forum posts
Firefox.
"The award-winning Web browser is now even faster, more secure, and fully customizable to suit your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online...
Uploading Files
Files are uploaded to individual pages and considered "attached" to that page.
To upload a file :
Click on files at the bottom of a page.
Choose a file to upload.
Click a button...
Page to hold some local files to be used in forum posts
local javascript
You can upload your javascript as a local file.
Here is the script itself:
<html>
<body>
<script...
Five Nations Golf Club asbl
Contents: This is a fine example of how a wiki can be used to the benefit of a local club or community. In this case, its a Golf Club.
Founder: gerdami
Language:...
If you want to "change" a bug to status "fixed" than "include" at the top of the bugs-page the line: [[include include:bugs-fixed]]
Backlinks
module "forum/ForumCommentsModule"
If you want to stay informed about new posts on our forum and for some reason you do not want to use RSS feeds (this is ok, not everybody uses this) — you can subscribe to receive a...
Page which holds pictures or screenshots used by forum posts.
redirect
image size
[[image forumpics/tech-group.jpg size="square"]]
[[image forumpics/tech-group.jpg size="thumbnail"]]
[[image...
This document describes how to set up a forum for a Site - step-by-step.
Introduction
Every Site on Wikidot can contain an autonomous, fully-featured forum. The forum is also used to add such...
1. Block spammer
The First thing to do, when some dear nice chappy (or chapess) starts playing silly buggers is to block them.
At the moment only admins can do this. This is done by going to
site...
The following has not been fully tested. I'm hoping someone who has managed to break their forums, use this, and let us know if it works! (please?)
Avoiding &^%$ Ups
From bitter experience i...
I find in the forum when adding a discussion that the side of the entry box (like the one I am using now), will slide off the right edge of the screen with no slider bars to bring it back. If I...
Fragmented Galaxy
Contents: Welcome to the Fragmented Galaxy Website! This site is the home of Fragmented Galaxy (FG). Fragmented Galaxy is a massively multilayer online real time strategy game...
Frets On Fire Wiki
Contents: It seems to be a wiki dedicated to learning playing guitar with Frets On Fire, an open-source program that can be downloaded from http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net....
FrontForum — %%date%% variable
According to the module FrontForum documentation, the custom-format %%date%% variable supports a format parameter that “prints posting date with a custom format...
Game Design Novice
Contents: Game Design Novice is a wiki that strives to make game programming and design accessible and understandable to the complete novice. Game Design Novice currently has...
Game Maker Technology Magazine Wiki
Contents: The Game Maker Technology Wiki contain articles related to Game Maker and game design. It also includes reviews of Game Maker games, interviews,...
Who I am
Hi, I am gerdami.
My contributions
Beside the Wikidot Handbook, this is a list of pages I have contributed to:
and also the start-series
Start Blog
Start Dictionaries
Start...
So, you want to create your own wiki? Whether you are a professional wiki creator who makes a living creating wikis, a hobbist who just wants a space for your ideas, or you have a business that...
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Who I am
Hi, I am Goon
My contributions
List of pages I have contributed to:
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Helmuti_pdorf
31-Dec-2007
Greetings from Vienna!
( for all visitors far away: that is in Austria on Europe )
I believe, this platform is the best to implement all your ideas of a collaboration...
User ????????? can not be found. ??-??-????
Your text here.
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Handbook
Contents: The Hanbook was written (and still in development) to further extend the wikidot documentation
Founder: hartnell
Language: Multilingual
Wikidot features: Heavy usage of...
You will be redirected to http://handbook.wikidot.com
http://community.wikidot.com/handbook/noredirect/true to edit this page again.
29 Sep 2007 - gerdami
The Handbook team is proud to welcome kawina as the first Portuguese contibutor to the Wikidot's Handbook.
kawina is a Brazilian linguist interested in the documentation of...
1 Aug 2007 - gerdami
This Community website for Wikidot users is now one year old.
Happy birthday.
Read Launch of the Community Wikidot.com website
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gerdami
30 Dec 2007
Wikidot is really an awesome wiki engine which lets anyone create websites, edit other's webpages, contribute in forums, etc.
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Phil Chett
31-dec-2007
Just helping to demonstrate the guest book.
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hartnell 28-Apr-2008
Hi, I'm Shawn Hartnell. Interesting idea.
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Who I am
Hi, I am Helmuti_pdorf
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Community Help Pages
How To
Other Resources
Documentation
This page is a stub. You can help us improve Wikidot by expanding it.
This page lists the stubs for the help section. You can help improve Wikidot by expanding them.
How and When to Improve a Stub
If the page has a mispelling or grammar error.
If the text is...
Requested Features
Known Bugs
Related Pages
Backlinks
These pages link back to this one. You may find them helpful.
Triumph Herald Tips & Tricks
Contents: This is the place to find all the stuff that's not in the workshop manuals.
A lot of the content is collected from all over the Internet.
Hopefully in...
Heroes TV Show
Contents: Heroes TV Show wiki is a wiki reference and community for fans of the Heroes TV show.
Founder: hartnell
Language: English
Wikidot features: Gamma rays, able to bake...
What you need, to make the above work, is a Forum thread or a Per Page Discussion thread1, that has been created around the time your wiki has been created. Then you can display the number of days...
Please - do not forget to set the "parent" ä page - by selecting one of the "howtotopics:" pages!
It can be difficult to understand the concept of "Categories," but there is a magic clue that clearly shows how categories are set up. This clue is found in "site manager," under "themes" and...
How to use templates.
What are they?
These are pre - prepared pages, pro - formers, forms that you may wish your wikidot contributers to use.
An excellent example of a template can be found...
If you are allowed to edit pages in this Site, simply click on edit button at the bottom of the page. This will open an editor with a toolbar pallette with options.
To create a link to a new page,...
Some example of how to embellish your text in your wiki. These have all been swiped from the forums, to put them all in one place. Please feel free to add more.
Text Size
Size of text in a Page...
This document is a "work-in-progress". If you want to contribute - feel free to do it!
This is a short guide how to make a successful Wiki Site and promote it.
Idea for the Site
Think on a...
This page explains how you can send e-mails (like invitations) to your friends and/or contacts.
1. Where to go to Send E-Mail Invitations
If you have not done so yet, you should create Your Own...
Or to be more precise, what they do!
Forums Post option buttons
Below any post you make, there are two buttons: reply | options
Reply
Use this to directly reply to the specific post you are...
Or to be more precise, what they do!
Page Options.
These are found at the bottom of every page and can be switched off (set to be not shown) in the site manager / permissions per every category and...
Internet Explorer.
The Windows built-in Web browser. IE6 and IE7 might not render perfectly some wikidot sites.
FF seems to be preferred by the Wikidot Community.
Anyway, IE is available at...
Iframe Syntax
[[iframe source attributes]]
Source
The source of an iframe is a url such as http://www.somewebsite.com/somepage.htm .
Attributes
Name
Does
Allowed Values
align
align the...
Bugs
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Description
If a foreign url contains a special character such as a single quote, the wikidot parser stops evaluating the source url at the first single quote.
Example:
[[iframe...
iMatix
Contents: Open source design bureau since 1996.
Pieter Hintjens founded iMatix in 1996 to research and develop new technologies and innovative products for the Internet era.
iMatix build...
This HowTo describes how to import simple tables from Excel to Wikidot with a simple concatenation or with a VBA code.
foldunfold
Table of Contents
The Spreadsheet
A. Simple and stupid...
Basic Include Syntax
[[include pagename]]
Passing Variables in an Include
Related Pages
Backlinks
These pages link back to this one. You may find them helpful.
{$part1}
This is Part 1
Four lines
One
Two
Three
Four
{$part2}
This is Part 2
Four more lines
One
Two
Three
Four
How To Include Only a Part of Another Page
Create your included page with “{$partn}” and “[!-- --]” markers (where n=1, 2, …) at the beginning and end of each block that you want to be...
Some text that's always there.
The first block of text that is optional.
Another optional block of text
Name:
Its name
Option:
an optional row in a table
Player:
Any
How To Include Only a Part of Another Page (Tricky Version)
This is a more sophisticated version of How To Include Only a Part of Another Page as it allows you to use a page
both on its own (i. e....
corn
Google "corn"
wheat
Google "wheat"
tree
Google "tree"
[[include include:picture cereal=corn]]
[[include include:picture cereal=wheat]]
[[include include:picture...
Article
Discussion
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Table of Contents
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
What if you already have existing pages that you want staff members to edit?
Scenario. You want to let some...
An wikidot Infobox is a combined use of a template at page creation with an included preformatted infobox which is filled dynamically by passing parameters, such as lastname, firstname,...
Please - do not forget to set the "parent" ä page - by selecting one of the "howtotopics:" pages!
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#the-cascade more over...
11 March 2008 - gerdami
Helmuti_pdorf just finished his long article on Wikidot on Wikipedia on 10 March.
He treated both the software part and the wiki-farm part.
By the end of the day, despite...
Please note that this guide is incomplete, but still very useful. The empty sections will be filled in soon.
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Table of Contents
What is an interface?
About users
Definition the Optimum...
Internet Protocol
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