| | 1 | = The Trac Wiki Engine = |
| | 2 | [[TracGuideToc]] |
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| | 4 | Trac has a built-in wiki engine, used for text and documentation throughout the system. WikiFormatting is used in [wiki:TitleIndex wiki pages], [wiki:TracTickets tickets] and [wiki:TracChangeset check-in log messages]. This allows for formatted text and hyperlinks in and between all Trac modules. |
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| | 6 | Editing wiki text is easy, using any web browser and a simple [WikiFormatting formatting system], rather than more complex markup languages like HTML. The reasoning behind its design is that HTML, with its large collection of nestable tags, is too complicated to allow fast-paced editing, and distracts from the actual content of the pages. Note though that Trac also supports [wiki:WikiHtml HTML], [wiki:WikiRestructuredText reStructuredText] and [http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/ Textile] as alternative markup formats. |
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| | 8 | The main goal of the wiki is to make editing text easier and ''encourage'' people to contribute and annotate text content for a project. |
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| | 10 | The wiki itself does not enforce any structure, but rather resembles a stack of empty sheets of paper, where you can organize information and documentation as you see fit, and later reorganize if necessary. |
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| | 12 | For more help on editing wiki text, see these pages: |
| | 13 | * WikiFormatting |
| | 14 | * WikiPageNames |
| | 15 | * WikiNewPage |
| | 16 | * TracLinks |
| | 17 | * TracWikiMacros |
| | 18 | * WikiProcessors |
| | 19 | * PageTemplates |
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| | 21 | If you want to practice editing, please use the SandBox. |
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| | 23 | Some more information about wiki on the web: |
| | 24 | * http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki |
| | 25 | * http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory |
| | 26 | * http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WhyWikiWorks |
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| | 28 | ---- |
| | 29 | See also: TracGuide |
