Wiki Config

Table of contents

• Wiki Config
  • Admin Access
  • Sections: Tiki Config Panel
  • Wiki settings
    • Dumps
    • Wiki Comments Settings
    • Wiki Attachments
    • Export Wiki Pages
    • Remove unused pictures
    • Wiki Home Page
    • Wiki Discussion
    • Wiki Link Format
    • Wiki Page Staging and Approval
    • Wiki features
      • Sandbox
      • Anonymous editors must input anti-bot code
      • Last Changes
      • Dump
      • Export
      • Rating
      • History
      • View Source
      • List Pages
      • Backlinks
      • Similar
      • Rankings
      • Undo
      • Save Draft
      • Multiprint
      • PDF generation
      • Comments
      • Spellchecking
      • Minor Edits
      • Use templates
      • Warn on edit
      • Pictures
      • Use page description
      • Show page title
      • Cache Wiki pages
      • Individual cache
      • Footnotes
      • Users can save to notepad
      • Users can lock pages
      • Use WikiWords
      • User pages
      • Page creators are admin of their pages
      • Table syntax
      • Use Wiki paragraph formatting
      • Automonospaced text
      • Uses Slideshow
    • Needed for 1.10? - the following options explained.
      • Make structure from page:
      • Categorize structure pages together:
      • Create webhelp from structure:
      • Use external link icons:
      • UserPage prefix:
      • Page creators are admin of their pages:
      • Import HTML:
      • Import Page:
      • Protect email against spam:
      • When viewing a page, if it doesn't exist and has one like page, automatic redirection to this like page:
      • Show/hide heading icon displayed before the heading:
      • Force and limit categorization to within subtree of:
      • Print Page:
      • Allow HTML:
      • Show page version:
      • Page navigation bar position
    • Wiki History
    • Copyright
    • Wiki Watch

Admin Access

To access administration, go to Home Page and, on the Menu, click on "Admin (click!)".

Sections: Tiki Config Panel

You will see the Sections Tiki Config Panel (see Tiki Config ), as shown in the image below:

Wiki settings

Wiki

From the Tiki Config Panel, click the Wiki icon to display its settings panel, the top of which appears like so:

Dumps

A dump is a snapshot of your wiki pages in XHTML format. You can generate and download dumps for backups, off-line browsing, distribution on CD, presentations, and so on. Tiki stores your dumps in the ../dump directory in TAR format.

You must enable the Dump option to use this feature.

Field	Description
Generate Dump	Click the Generate Dump link to create a dump.
Download Last Dump	Click the Download last dump to download the latest dump (new.tar) to your PC.
Create a Tag for the Current Wiki	Use tags to create a marker to identify the current state of the wiki pages. Tags can be used to help you recover you wiki pages in case of accidential deletion or other problems. With tags, you can restore your wiki pages to a prior, good state. To create a new tag to identify the wiki's current state, enter a Tag Name and click Create.
Restore the Wiki	To restore the wiki pages to a prior state, select the tag of that state and click Restore. The wiki pages will be restored to their state when you created the tag. Warning: All wiki pages created or changed after the creation of the tag will be lost.
Remove a Tag	Tags can consume a lot of space. You should remove tags that you no longer need. To delete a tag, select the Tag Name and click Remove.

Wiki Comments Settings

If the Comments option is selected in the Wiki Features area, you can add comments to your wiki pages. Use this area to configure the the default display of wiki comments.

You must enable the Comments option to use this feature.

Field	Description
Default Number of Comments	Enter the number of comments to show at a time. If a page contains more comments, Tiki will create NEXT/PREVIOUS links. (Default = 10)
Comments Default Ordering	Specify how the comments are shown: Points: Comments with the highest point value are shown first. (Default) Newest First: The newest comments are shown first. Oldest First: The oldest comments are shown first.
List Displayed by Default	Specify if the comments are automatically displayed on wiki pages. If not enabled, users will have to click a Comments link before viewing the comments. This option was introduced in Tiki 2.0.

Enter your options and click Change Settings. Note that when comments are displayed on a wiki pages, users have the option to override these defaults and resort the comments.

Wiki Attachments

A Wiki page can have attached files (attachments). You can store attachments in the database or a file directory. The maximum size of an attachment is specified by your webserver's PHP.INI upload_max_filesize setting. By default, the maximum upload size is 2MB.

The directory path can be absolute or relative to the Tiki directory.

Field	Description
Wiki Attachements	Specify if files can be attached to wiki pages. Users with permission will see an Attachments button on wiki pages.
Use Database to Store Files	If selected, files that are attached to wiki pages will be converted to BLOBs and stored in the Tiki database in the tiki_wiki_attachments table.
Use a Directory to Store Files	If selected, files that are attached to wiki pages will be stored in the specified directory. The directory can be an absolute path (such as http://www.foo.bar/attachments/_) or relative to the Tiki installation directory (such as attachements/). Note: The trailing slash (/) in the path is mandatory — it must be included in the path.
List displayed by default	Specify if the comments are automatically displayed on wiki pages. If not enabled, users will have to click an Attachments button before viewing or adding attachments. This option was introduced in Tiki 2.0.
Wiki Attachments	This area lists all current attachments. You can use this area to change an attachments storage location to either Database to File. This field is in Tiki 1.9 only

Enter your options and click Change Preferences.

In the Wiki Administration area, click Manage attachments preferences.

The Wiki Attachments page appears. This pages lists all current attachments.

• To change a single attachment from file to database (or reverse), click Change for that attachments.
• To change all attachments from file to database (or revers), click Change all to DB (or Change all to File).

Export Wiki Pages

The Export link can be used to export all your Wiki pages to a PHPWiki compatible format. Then you can import pages if you want using the Import PHPWiki Dump link in the Admin menu. Each page is exported to a file where all the versions of the page are stored in MIME format.

• Click on the link to export wiki pages

You must enable the Export option to use this feature.

Remove unused pictures

This link can be used to remove all the pictures that are stored in the Wiki pictures directory (img/wiki_up) but are not referenced in any Wiki page.

• Click on the link to remove unused pictures

Wiki Home Page

You can select any wiki page to be the "home" page of your Wiki. This page will be shown from the Wiki > Wiki Home menu option.

Enter the name of the wiki page and click Set. If the page does not exist, TikiWiki will create it for you.

Note: To use this wiki page as the "home" page for your entire site, you must select Wiki as the Home Page on the General Admin page.

Wiki Discussion

TikiWiki can automatically create a forum thread for each wiki page. The forum thread will be named the same as the Wiki page. You can specify in which forum the thread is created. This allows users to create an open discourse about pages using the public forums.

Field	Description
Discuss pages on forums	Enabling the option will add a Discuss button on every Wiki page that links to a forum thread dedicated to discussion the particular page. This option is available only when the Forum feature is enabled.
Forum	Select the forum to be used for the page's thread (discussion). The forum must already be created.

Enter your options and click Set.

The Discuss feature is similar to the Comments feature. Although both can be used at the same time, it may be best to select only one.

Wiki Link Format

This control can be used to control recognition of Wiki links using the two parenthesis Wiki link syntax ((page name)).

• english allows only letters, numbers, space, underscore, dash, period and semicolon (but space, dash, period and semicolon not allowed as either the first or last characters).
• latin adds accented characters.
• complete allows anything at all but is not guaranteed to be bug-free or secure.

Note that this only affects the Wiki syntax ((page name)). It does not affect recognition of the Wiki naming convention of Smashed words starting with capital letters (example: ThisIsSomePage).

• Push the button to set the format

Wiki Page Staging and Approval

This is a feature to allow wiki pages to be staged before they are approved. This is useful, for example, to have a staging area where open contributions are welcome, but at the same time to have an official knowledge base that is extremely stable, hence needing some kind of approval before page changes are shown there.

For more information about configuring this feature, see Wiki Page Staging and Approval

Wiki features

This section can be used to enable/disable specific Wiki features.

Sandbox

The Sandbox page allows users to practice their Wiki page editing skills. The Sandbox is a special page where everybody has write permission and no history is saved.

Anonymous editors must input anti-bot code

If enabled, when members of the Anonymous group edit pages (with permission), they must enter a CAPTCHA code before saving the page. This will reduce the amount of spam in your wiki pages.

Last Changes

If enabled, the Last changes option will be available from the Wiki menu. Users (with permission) will be able to list the last (most recent) changes to the Wiki.

Dump

If enabled, dumps can be created and saved.

Export

If enabled, users can missing parameter for aname
individual pages and structure pages content as a file (requires tiki_p_admin_wiki permission).

Rating

This allows you to add a poll from polls feature to any wiki page. The poll is unique to the page, created from a "poll template" which is created in the Poll feature: set a poll's 'active' drop-down to "template". You may have to adjust your groups permissions for tiki_p_wiki_view_ratings and tiki_p_wiki_vote_ratings.

History

If enabled, users (with permission) can see the history of each Wiki page.

View Source

If enabled users (with permission) can see the Wiki syntax of the Wiki page.

List Pages

If enabled users (with permission) can see the list of Wiki pages--like a directory of Wiki pages.

Backlinks

Allows users to view a list of pages that link to the current page

Similar

If enabled, users can see a listing of pages named similarly to the current page.
Note: Prior to release 1.9.11, this option was called Like Pages.

Rankings

If enabled, users can see several charts or rankings about the Wiki.

Undo

If enabled, the user who last edited a page can undo his or her edit.

Save Draft

This option was introduced in Tiki 2.0

Multiprint

If enabled a section is provided where a user can select several Wiki pages and then view them in a printer-friendly version. This can be used to print multiple pages.

PDF generation

If enabled Wiki pages can be converted to PDF format for printing, archiving, or other purposes. There are known bugs in the PDF generation.
This option was removed in Tiki 2.0

Comments

If enabled, Wiki pages can have comments. This feature overlaps the Wiki Discussion feature, you can read the note about Wiki pages comments/discussion at the bottom of this page.

See Page Comments? for more information.

Spellchecking

If enabled the spellchecker can be used for Wiki pages. See Spellcheck for details on installing the language library (a separate download).

Minor Edits

Users with the right permission (tiki_p_minor) can do minor edits on Wiki pages. Minor edits are not reflected in the history. In tw>=1.10, the preference in admin->wiki 'watch minor" allows users watching the page not to be notified on minor changes.

Use templates

If enabled templates can be used to edit Wiki pages. The user editing a page can select one of the templates available for Wiki pages. See ContentTemplatesDoc to learn how to create templates for wiki pages.

Warn on edit

If enabled then when a user is editing a page the edit button will be colored red and the name of the user editing the page will be displayed as a tooltip. If the user saves or cancels his or her edit or if the indicated amount of time passes the edit button will be displayed normally. This feature is useful to prevent collisions when editing pages.

Pictures

If enabled users can quickly add an image to a Wiki page by simply uploading the picture when editing a page. The picture will be stored in img/wiki_up using the name of the picture as an Id.

Use page description

If enabled a description can be entered when editing a page and descriptions will be displayed below the page name when viewing a page.

Show page title

If enabled the page title will be displayed. If disabled no title will be displayed (and it will be hard to know what page you are editing!).

Cache Wiki pages

If enabled then Wiki pages can be cached, so the page is remembered after being generated and the Tiki engine will not have to parse the page content to display it. After the indicated time passes or if the page is changed, the cache is invalidated.

This can be a security issue. Please see: Wiki cache & plugins: WYSIWYCA problem when admin visits the page (and creates the cache)

Individual cache

If enabled then cache times can be set for each individual page, overriding the global cache time setting.

Footnotes

If enabled logged users can write personal footnotes when editing a page. The footnotes will be displayed only to the user who edited them immediately below the Wiki page. This can be used as a good way to let users make personal notes and observations about pages.

Users can save to notepad

If enabled and if the user's notepad feature is enabled and if the user is logged a save icon will be shown when viewing a page, letting the user save the page to his or her personal notepad.

Users can lock pages

If enabled then users with permission to lock pages can lock pages and only the user who locked a page or admin can unlock it.

Use WikiWords

If enabled then words using the Wiki naming convention of Smashed words will automatically become links. WikiWords start with capital letters and include capitals in the middle of the word (example: ThisIsAWikiWord).

User pages

If enabled, each user will have a personal wiki page which only (s)he can edit. The prefix is configurable.

Page creators are admin of their pages

If enabled then users who create a page are also in control of that page. They have administrators rights over it.

Table syntax

This selects the syntax to be used for new rows in tables. Can be || or "\n" (line break).

Example of both ways for inserting a new row Using || for new rows ||r1c1|r1c2||r2c2|r2c2|| Using \n for new rows ||r1c1|r1c2 r2c1|r2c2||

Use Wiki paragraph formatting

If this is enabled, adjacent lines of text will be formatted as paragraphs. Paragraphs are separated by blank lines or Wiki commands.

Automonospaced text

If this is enabled, the Tiki code lines starting with at least one space are interpreted and rendered with monospaced font. Generally if you have occasional users this can get them puzzled and wondering what's happening.

Uses Slideshow

If enabled users can generate slideshows from structures.

• Push the button, when finished to set preferences.

Needed for 1.10? - the following options explained.

Make structure from page:

Adds a "Make structure" button to bottom wiki buttons.

Categorize structure pages together:

Allows categories to be applied to structures on creation.

Create webhelp from structure:

If the Webhelp feature is enabled.

Use external link icons:

UserPage prefix:

You can change the prefix given to all User Pages?.

Page creators are admin of their pages:

Allows page creators to assign permissions or remove pages they create.

Import HTML:

Import Page:

Protect email against spam:

Masks all email addresses in a "mailto:" link.

When viewing a page, if it doesn't exist and has one like page, automatic redirection to this like page:

Specifically designed to reduce parallel pages will redirect someone trying to create "trains" to "train".

Show/hide heading icon displayed before the heading:

For use with the !!- or !!+ syntax. Checking will display the showhide switch at the left of the heading, otherwise it displays below.

Force and limit categorization to within subtree of:

not sure what this means...perhaps it limits wiki pages to a specific subset of categories. Whether it then forces categorization . . .

Print Page:

Allow HTML:

Show page version:

Page navigation bar position

Choose where the page break icons are displayed when page break syntax is used:

Wiki History

This panel is to control the deletion of old versions of Wiki pages.
Maximum number of versions for historydetermines how many versions of a Wiki page will be kept before older versions are deleted. This affects the level of undo that is possible, but also how much of the page's evolution you can see. This can be useful in a highly collaborative environment where it seems that some elements don't make sense anymore.
Never delete versions younger than days can be used as a basic way to avoid vandals or to make sure that editors can review all the changes done to a page if many edits were done in a short time.

• Push the button to set preferences.

Copyright

You can use or not the Copyright to specify a content license under which all Wiki pages are published when submitted. License Page indicates the Wiki page containing the default license of your Wiki. It won't be created automatically. Submit Notice is seen when editing a Wiki page to indicate what content is suitable considering the license. Push the button to set preferences.

Wiki Watch

The two first options automatize the monitoring of Wiki pages. Create watch for author on page creation automatically makes a page creator monitor the page he created. Enable watches on comments notifies monitorers of new comments, as for a new edit. Used less often, Enable watch events when I am the editor cancels the normal behavior which assumes that editors do not want to be notified themselves when they modify a page they are monitoring. Push the button to set preferences.

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