Using the Wiki

The wiki is very simple to use, once you understand a few basic things.

First, due to spammers, you have to register and log in before you can edit anything. We used to allow anonymous edits, but after cleaning up spam a few hundred times you get really tired of it. Sorry, blame the spammers.

Creating an Account

Click Login/Register

First, you need to chose a username. In the wiki, it's a WikiName. i.e. it has to have two capital letters. Mine is ChrisBuechler. You can use anything with two capital letters and no spaces in it.

Fill in your WikiName username, password, then confirm password and enter your email address.

You now have a wiki account, and should be logged in.

WikiWords

Next, you need to understand the concept of WikiWords. Any word with two captials is a WikiWord. WikiWords become links to wiki pages by default.

If you're entering a word in a page that will become a wiki word and don't want it to link to anything, please put two sets of quotation marks around the word. This keeps it from becoming a link (and is how I kept WikiWord here and above from becoming a link).

Editing a Page

To edit any page, click the "Edit page" link found at the bottom of every page on the wiki. You can also double click anywhere on a page to edit the page. Make your changes, optionally enter a note on your edit (this is recommended) and click the Store button at the bottom to save your changes.

Creating a New Page

There are two ways to create a new page. You can edit an existing page and add a new WikiWord, then save the page, and click on the new wiki word. At that point, it will tell you the page does not exist and will ask if you want to create the page. The page name also doesn't have to be a WikiWord. If you put a word in a set of double brackets, it will become a link to a new (or existing) page. Like [[newpage]] will link to a new page called newpage.

You can also create a new page without adding a link to the page by going to the URL http://devwiki.pfsense.org/newpage where newpage is the name of the page you wish to create.