Here we develop and share thoughts on how to enable folks to cultivate their know-how of writing in wiki. We do this at a simple and perhaps also at a more fluent and powerful level.
For communicating to others in the pod we post news here Writing in wiki news. We all have a page with this name.
To begin, we'll list in an ad hoc way the features of wiki that are being used in the present site. Later we may rationalise and categorise this list.
Marc Pierson has some thoughts on How to add content (write)
Marc also has some thoughts on who may want to write in wiki Writer
Basic page composition
Paragraph plugins - Many different kinds of capability are available in a wiki page, by including various kinds of paragraph plugin. They are chosen from a 'factory' which appears on clicking the [+] button in the page journal. About paragraph plugins
Deleting an unwanted page - To be added xxx
Markdown features - Using a markdown paragraph enables typographic features like block text, ordered and unordered lists, bold/italic typeface, 'code' (fixed-width) typeface, and escaped characters. About markdown - To be added xxx
> 👉 Of course, bullets can be included in plain text paragraphs by using the characters available directly from your keyboard. \[This is a block text example of a Markdown paragraph, but with a keyboard bullet]
Navigation features
Rosters - To be added xxx
Advanced features
Graph snippets - Wiki has a powerful capability to graph networks of pages. It's good to accumulate a library of snippets that enable various kinds of graph to be dropped into the wiki-in-hand.
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