Updated 2013-04-11 05:46:04 by pooryorick

Summary  edit

A guide to using the The Tcler's Wiki

Please do not overwrite this help page - use Graffiti for experimenting.

Description  edit

Contributions are welcome! Please help to keep the wiki organized by trying to find a relevant page when adding new information. If one can't be found, feel free to create a new page.

The following help pages are currently available:
About
How to create your own page
How to link to a page
How to edit these wiki pages
How to edit Wikit pages with Emacs
Formatting Rules
for the text that can be entered in a page... see the bottom of that page for information on how to create new pages.
Wikit user names
how to make your initials show up on the edit & recent changes
How do Wiki Categories work
How to update a page
Wikit
information about the system running this wiki
wikitcl bug tracker
this is the place to report bugs in this wiki system
See the difference between versions of a page
visit the page and click on the history link at the bottom (or side) of the page.
an RSS feed
of recent changes

Navigation  edit

The page title is a link that, when clicked, displays a list of pages that link to the current page.

Reverting to an Older Version  edit

If a page was spammed, or you want to undo an edit:

  1. Click on the History link for the page you want to revert
  2. Look for the version you want to revert to on the table with history information
  3. Click on the version number in the Revert to column
  4. Fill out the captcha
  5. You will be redirected to the editor page with the text of the selected version
  6. Save the page

Renaming a Page  edit

Sadly, this functionality does not exist yet. If you feel up to the task, please contribute some code

Deleting a Page  edit

To "delete" a page for the purposes of not having it show up in search results, replace the content of the page with a single space. To nominate a page to be purged, add Category DeleteMe to it.

Automation  edit

Various facilities have been proposed/implemented for making the wiki content usable in various contexts, including consumption by client Tcl interpreters.
Literate programming in a wiki
proposals for a hybrid wiki/literate-programming environment
TWiG
extract and run scripts from wiki pages
wiki-reaper
extract and run scripts from wiki pages
wish-reaper
a Tk version of wiki-reaper