DokuWiki

DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files – no database is required.

Read the DokuWiki Manual to unleash the full power of DokuWiki.

DokuWiki is available at http://www.splitbrain.org/go/dokuwiki

All documentation and additional information besides the syntax description is maintained in the DokuWiki at wiki.splitbrain.org.

About DokuWiki

• A feature list
• Happy Users
• Who wrote about it
• What Bloggers think
• Compare it with other wiki software

Installing DokuWiki

• System Requirements
• Download DokuWiki
• Change Log
• How to install or upgrade
• Configuration

Using DokuWiki

• Wiki Syntax
• The manual
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Glossary
• Search for DokuWiki help and documentation

Customizing DokuWiki

• Tips and Tricks
• How to create and use templates
• Installing plugins
• Development Resources

DokuWiki Feedback and Community

• Join the mailing list
• Check out the user forum
• Talk to other users in the IRC channel
• Submit bugs and feature wishes
• Share your experiences in the WikiMatrix forum
• Some humble thanks

Interesting DocuWiki plugins

• See HTML entities about how add new custom entities (hr and nbsp and shy are not needed)

• blockquote – ok
• code2 – powerful extension if build-in code – ok
• files – nice implementation of handling of media resources; the analog of mediamanager
• folded – folding the contents, similar to outliner ?
• flowplay – integrates the flowplayer to stream video to an embedded flash applet (like on YouTube)
• gallery – generates a list of images from a given namespace as thumbnails
• google cal – ok
• google maps was rewritten, see google_maps
• google video – ok
• goto
• header – enables formatting in headers (works with minor fixes): (post1, post2, post3) – ok
• htmlcomment – ok
• isbn – create links to amazon by ISBN number
• indexmenu, indexmenu2, pageindex – representing namespaces/pages as a JS menu or list
• javadoc
• linkext – adding letters following the link to the link does not work, core should be patched
• mllist – support of linebreaks for lists – ok
• math and latex – embedded formulas support
• numberedheadings – generate multi-level numbers for headers – seems to be included into header plugin
• medialist – ok?
• pagemove – administration plugin to enable renaming and moving of pages – ok
• phpinc, source – include PHP/HTML files into the page
• refnots – maintains reference database (e.g. literature list)
• searchtext – plugin searches pages rendered as text instead of raw wiki ok?
• select – creates a drop-down list with pages to jump to
• smblink – create correct links to shared resources
• spellcheck – spellchecker – ok for current wiki language
• styler, note – enable more block formatting possibilities, like <quote>, <epigraph>, <verse>, <note>
• uparrow – generate «Go to the top of the page» link where requested
• userannotations – allows users to associate misc annotations with the page
• userpoll – create a poll
• vcard – generates a vCard
• youtube – ok

ToDo List

• Re-generating of meta information for pages – describes the problems of header plugin and ways out
• Links: various questions – ideas how to improve formatting in links. Should be merged into one plugin:
  • externallink – support of external links to the same (hoster) server – ok
  • relativelinks – refer links relative to current namespace
  • revlink – refer the particular page revision
• Namespaces, page names and media file names in pure UTF-8 – the solution about using UTF-8 in page filenames and media files
• feeding does not work
• cross-porting to Livejournal needs to be implemented

Blogging

• blog – main blog functionality – ok
• tag – tags for pages – ok (see also tagentry to edit tags)
• cloud – displaying the cloud of tags – ok
• discussion – discussion threads for blog pages – ok
• feedmod – extended HTML feed for blog pages – ok?
• include – include one page into another – ok
• pagelist – refer the other page information and include it – ok
• captcha – anti spam measures – ok

2004-2007 © Andreas Gohr andi@splitbrain.org¹⁾

The DokuWiki engine is licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2. If you use DokuWiki in your company, consider donating a few bucks to me via PayPal .

The content published in the DokuWiki at http://www.splitbrain.org/dokuwiki/ is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License Version 2.0.

An exception is made for the content which distributed in the download tarball²⁾ which is, for compatibility reasons, licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 as well.

Not sure what this means? See the FAQ on the Licenses.