WikiWikiWeb
A Wiki Wiki Web is a collaborative hypertext environment, with an emphasis on easy access to and modification of information.
You can edit any page by pressing the link at the bottom of the page. Capitalized words joined together form a Wiki Name, which hyperlinks to another page. The highlighted title searches for all pages that link to the current page. Pages which do not yet exist are linked with a question mark (or a different rendering in bold red): just follow the link and you can add a definition. That is also the way to create a new page: add a new Wiki Name to an existing page, save your modification, click on your new link and create the page (more details on Help On Page Creation).
You are encouraged to edit the Wiki Sand Box whichever way you like. Please restrain yourself from editing other pages until you feel at home with the ways a wiki works.
To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks and the WikiNature. Also, consult the WikiWikiWebFaq and OneMinuteWiki. This wiki is also part of the Inter Wiki space, which means you can easily refer to a wealth of information available through other public wiki sites.
Good starting points to explore a wiki are
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Recent Changes: see where people are currently working
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Find Page: search or browse the database in various ways
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Title Index: a list of all pages in the wiki
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Word Index: a list of all words that are part of page title (thus, a list of the concepts in a wiki)
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Site Navigation: a page leading to the different indexing schemes of the wiki
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Wiki Sand Box: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing
For more help, see the Help Contents and the Help Index pages.
Wiki Names
A Wiki Name is a word that uses capitalized words. Wiki Names automagically become hyperlinks to the Wiki Name's page. What exactly is an uppercase or lowercase letter is determined by the configuration, the default configuration works for Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) characters. See below for how to handle Asian, Hebrew and other non-western character encodings.
When you click on the highlighted page title (i.e. HelpForBeginners on this page), you will see a list of all pages that link to the current page. This even works on pages that are not defined yet.
A question mark before a link, or a different rendering in bold red, means that the page is not yet defined: you can click the question mark to offer a definition (e.g., No Such Page For Real). If you click on such a link, you'll see a default page that you can edit; only after you save the page will it be created for real. A list of all pages that are not yet created but referred on another page is on Wanted Pages.
To escape a Wiki Name, i.e. if you want to write the word WikiName without linking it, use an "empty" bold sequence (a sequence of six single quotes) like this: Wiki''''''Name. Alternatively, you can use the shorter sequence "``" (two backticks), i.e. Wiki``Name.
To learn more about wiki markup, see Help On Editing.
