So you want to get this whole wiki thing going?

Good!

You may want to first try editing existing pages, for instance the Wiki Sandbox. Just click on the 'Edit' link you find in the upper right corner of every page, between 'View' and 'Print'. You will see a text area to edit the page. Afterwards at the bottom of the page fill in a short summary of your edit and your name and press Save. You can also Preview your changes before saving them.

It really is that simple. Don't believe me? Try it! In the sandbox you're free to do whatever you like, so you can experiment with how things work.

Don't forget to Save!

The content of a page consists of plain text and some simple markup to create headings, lists, links and so forth.

To create a heading begin a line with two exclamation marks, like this:

!!This is a heading

Will look like this:

This is a heading

By using three or more exclamation marks you get subheadings:

!!!This is a sub-heading

Will look like this:

This is a sub-heading

For a simple bullet lists just put an asterisk before every item

* item 1

* another item

Results in:

• item 1
• another item

Creating links

The Wiki is a Web, pages are interconnected by links. Links are made by using double square brackets:

[[This will become a link]]

When the page does not exist (like the page How to make fruit salad?) then a little question mark appears next to it. Follow the link and you get a chance to create the page.

Pages on this Wiki are divided in Groups. The current page is called GettingStarted in the group Main. To link to a page in a different group you use the syntax:

[[Group.Page]] or [[Group/Page]]

These link to the same page, but their appearance is different:

Group.Page? or Page?

If you want to change the title that appears you can do it like this

There's also a great [[How to make fruit salad | Fruit salad recipe]]

result:

There's also a great Fruit salad recipe?

A great way to learn is to simply look at the markup of existing pages. For more info you can check out PmWiki.Basic Editing.