How to Contribute to the PurWiki

(Only Conventicle Contributors may edit the PurWiki. If you are interested in becoming a contributor, see this page.)

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• Cite sources from which you draw and/or quote information, using footnotes
• Format pages according to the pattern used across the PurWiki, using the appropriate templates provided

• Post pictures that are copyrighted without the owner's permission – this could get you in big trouble!
• Delete information someone else has written without first communicating with them to discuss the alteration
• Change major features of the PurWiki site

“What's a Wiki?”, you may be asking. The following video by Common Craft explains it quite well, even though the PurWiki and the wiki described in the video have different purposes:

As a contributor, you have the freedom to add new pages to the PurWiki OR edit existing ones.

As the video explains, the two most important buttons are Edit and Save. Click on 'Edit' to make changes to a page, and click on 'Save' to save them and return to regular viewing mode.

You must be logged in to edit PurWiki pages. Click on 'Login' in the upper right corner of the screen to do so. A username and password are required. Login/logout for the PurWiki is separate from the Conventicle blog.

(Remember to log out after each session.)

There are two ways to do this:

1. Go to the Table of Contents on the PurWiki Homepage.
2. Find the page you want to edit by searching for it in the appropriate category (for example, the page on John Bunyan would be found under 'People' > 'Puritans').
3. Click on the page name. If the page already exists, you will be taken to it. Click 'Edit this page' and begin editing. If a link exists but not an actual page, you will see the message, 'This topic does not exist yet'. Click on 'Create this page' and begin writing.

1. Find the Search Box, located in the top right corner of the page.
2. Type in the name of the page (person, place or thing) you want to edit.
3. If the page already exists, you will see it listed. Click on it, and you will be taken to it. Then click on 'Edit this page'. If the page does not yet exist, you can create it by clicking on 'Create this page'.

First, check in the Table of Contents (on the PurWiki Homepage) to see if the page you want to create already exists, or if there is at least a link for it. You will need to look in the appropriate category (for example, a page on John Wesley would be found under 'People' > Non-Puritans, while a page on New York City would be found under 'Places' > United States).

Click on the page name. If the page already exists, you will be taken to it. Click 'Edit this page' and begin editing. If a link exists but not an actual page, you will see the message, 'This topic does not exist yet'. Click on 'Create this page' and begin writing.

1. First add the page name in the appropriate Table of Contents category. For example, if you were going to add a page on John Wesley, you would click on Non-Puritans under 'People'. This would take you to the Non-puritans index page. You would then click on 'Edit this page', add the name 'John Wesley' under the heading 'T - Z', and click Save.
2. Now a link should exist for the page on John Wesley, even though the actual page has not yet been created. To create the page, you would simply click on the link for 'John Wesley'. You will then see the message, 'This topic does not exist yet'. Click on 'Create this page' and begin writing.

When creating a new page, always begin by copying (CTRL-C) and pasting (CTRL-V) the appropriate template on the page. This will provide a very basic framework in which you can place your brilliant content (and it will ensure that all PurWiki pages are consistent in format.)

Here are links to the various templates (these are also listed at the bottom of each corresponding index page in the Table of Contents):

Puritans Template
Non-Puritans Template
Scholars Template

Places Template

Events Template
Legislation Template
Theological Subjects Template

Bibliographies Template
Time-lines Template

You will increase the value of the PurWiki if you create as many links as possible from the words, phrases and proper names on the pages you create.

For example, there are at least three terms in the following sentence that might one day (conceivably) have a PurWiki page devoted to them:

“The submission of the Millenary Petition, which Stephen Egerton helped to write, eventually resulted in the Hampton Court Conference.”

By placing double brackets around these words, we can make them into links:

"The submission of the [[Millenary Petition]], which [[Stephen Egerton]] helped to write, 
eventually resulted in the [[Hampton Court Conference]]."

Now our sentence looks like this:

“The submission of the Millenary Petition, which Stephen Egerton helped to write, eventually resulted in the Hampton Court Conference.”

If and when a PurWiki page is written on either the Millenary Petition, Stephen Egerton and/or the Hampton Court Conference, the links above will automatically become 'active'. (If pages on any of these subjects had already been created when these words were bracketed, the links would have been rendered active immediately.)

Nifty, huh?

So, designate links on your pages now …

(NOTE: You can practice formatting a page on the 'Playground', before creating a real page, if you wish.)

Once you have clicked 'Edit' and are ready to create or alter a PurWiki page, you can use the buttons on the toolbar at the top of the formatting box, OR type a specific symbol or set of symbols, to format its content.

I have copied the following material from the handy Syntax Page provided with this program, which features a more extensive guide to formatting.

The first line you see below shows what your content will look like once it is formatted, while the second line (repeated in the orange box) shows the specific symbols used to create the formatting in question:

You can add footnotes ¹⁾ by using double parentheses.

You can add footnotes ((This is a footnote.)) by using double parentheses.\\ 

(Notice the corresponding footnote at the bottom of this page.)

DokuWiki supports bold, italic, underlined and monospaced texts. Of course you can combine all these.

DokuWiki supports **bold**, //italic//, __underlined__ and ''monospaced'' texts.
Of course you can **__//''combine''//__** all these.\\ 

Paragraphs are created from blank lines. If you want to force a newline without a paragraph, you can use two backslashes followed by a whitespace or the end of line.

This is some text with some linebreaks
Note that the two backslashes are only recognized at the end of a line
or followed by
a whitespace \\this happens without it.

This is some text with some linebreaks\\ Note that the
two backslashes are only recognized at the end of a line\\
or followed by\\ a whitespace \\this happens without it.

You should use forced newlines only if really needed.

DokuWiki supports multiple ways of creating links.

External links are recognized automagically: http://www.google.com or simply www.google.com - You can set the link text as well: This Link points to google. Email addresses like this one: andi@splitbrain.org are recognized, too.

DokuWiki supports multiple ways of creating links. External links are recognized
automagically: http://www.google.com or simply www.google.com - You can set
link text as well: [[http://www.google.com|This Link points to google]]. Email
addresses like this one: <andi@splitbrain.org> are recognized, too.\\ 

Internal links are created by using square brackets. You can either just give a pagename or use an additional link text.

Internal links are created by using square brackets. You can either just give
a [[pagename]] or use an additional [[pagename|link text]].

Wiki pagenames are converted to lowercase automatically, special characters are not allowed.

You can use namespaces by using a colon in the pagename.

You can use [[some:namespaces]] by using a colon in the pagename.

For details about namespaces see namespaces.

Linking to a specific section is possible, too. Just add the section name behind a hash character as known from HTML. This links to this Section.

This links to [[contributor_start_page#footnotes|this Section]].

Notes:

• Links to existing pages are shown in a different style from nonexisting ones.
• DokuWiki does not use CamelCase to automatically create links by default, but this behavior can be enabled in the config file. Hint: If DokuWiki is a link, then it's enabled.
• When a section's heading is changed, its bookmark changes, too. So don't rely on section linking too much.

You can use up to five different levels of headlines to structure your content. If you have more than three headlines, a table of contents is generated automatically – this can be disabled by including the string ~~NOTOC~~ in the document.

==== Headline Level 3 ====
=== Headline Level 4 ===
== Headline Level 5 ==

By using four or more dashes, you can make a horizontal line:

You can include external and internal images with curly brackets. Optionally you can specify the size of them.

Real size:

Resize to given width:

Resize to given width and height²⁾:

Resized external image:

Real size:                        {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png}}
Resize to given width:            {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?50}}
Resize to given width and height: {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?200x50}}
Resized external image:           {{http://de3.php.net/images/php.gif?200x50}}

By using left or right whitespaces you can choose the alignment.

{{ wiki:dokuwiki-128.png}}
{{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png }}
{{ wiki:dokuwiki-128.png }}

Of course, you can add a title (displayed as a tooltip by most browsers), too.

{{ wiki:dokuwiki-128.png |This is the caption}}

If you specify a filename (external or internal) that is not an image (gif, jpeg, png), then it will be displayed as a link instead.

For linking an image to another page see Image Links above.

Dokuwiki supports ordered and unordered lists. To create a list item, indent your text by two spaces and use a * for unordered lists or a - for ordered ones.

• This is a list
• The second item
  • You may have different levels
• Another item

1. The same list but ordered
2. Another item
   1. Just use indention for deeper levels
3. That's it

  * This is a list
  * The second item
    * You may have different levels
  * Another item

  - The same list but ordered
  - Another item
    - Just use indention for deeper levels
  - That's it