OSLC New Wiki test area

Steering Committee agenda

See the Steering Committee Meeting agenda page

What’s this for?

This area is for testing the very, very basic wiki functionality that may stand in for our current Twiki-based wiki infrastructure.

Do not put anything important or permanent on this wiki. I might delete it at any time.

How do I get access?

Register on the forums. The forum and this wiki share basic login controls.

Already a forum member? Log in. Members can create and edit new pages.

What’s the syntax?

Basic formatting

Pages use Markdown text conversion. If you’ve used the forum (it’s OK, I know you haven’t), it’s the same formatting.

If you have JavaScript enabled, there’s a formatting bar with buttons that will walk you through the basics.

For more details on the basic markup, see John Gruber’s Markdown syntax guide or the editing help page on Stack Exchange.

For fancier tricks like categorizing pages, see the ExpressionEngine Wiki Syntax.

If you need it, this forum also supports advanced formatting (tables, definition lists) with Markdown Extra formatting. Beware: the Live Preview won’t show any of the Markdown Extra formatting, but it will be formatted in the final post.

Linking to wiki pages

Two brackets around the name of the page: [[Name of page]]. If the page doesn’t exist yet, that’s OK. Spaces are OK. The link text will be the name of the page.

To use different text for the link, use this syntax: [[name of page | link text]]

At the moment, links to wiki pages won’t render in the live preview while you’re editing.

Uploading files

You can do that on the uploads page.

Is this it?

At the moment, yes. I’m working on the following additional features:

• Multiple wikis (one for each workgroup)
• Access control to those wikis per workgroup membership
• A better layout that matches the rest of the site
• Various usability improvements throughout
• A tool to generate Table of Contents from a page’s content
• A button in the formatting bar to generate links to wiki pages
• Links to wiki pages will properly render in the preview while editing a page