MakeASimplePage

Type or paste the page title in Make/Edit (left column)

Title must not have '/', multiple blank spaces between words, and other special characters
Title should be shorter than about 60 characters

Wait a few seconds until a new page is displayed

Type/Paste the contents of the wiki page

Readability increases when there are blank lines between paragraphs
Click on menu bar to associate categories with the wiki page: e.g. specific disease, D2 vs D3, etc.

Save the page

See if it looks OK, if not, just click EDIT and revise, or, at worst case "Cancel Edit"

Options

Attach images to the page - this can easily done AFTER the page is created
Display the attached images by copying the code from attaching the image, opening the page again, and pasting the code where you want to show the image
Attach file to the page - very similar procedure to attaching images
Be informed of any changes to your page, including comments, by hitting the eye icon in the lower right of the page, or check the "Monitor this page" box

Notes

All new and edited pages are automatically put at the top of the list of New wiki page (News in the Top Menu bar)

Extra blank spaces are eliminated by the TikiWik

You can add a space by adding ~hs~before the text

You can import only simple text unless you had previously switched editors to What You See Is What You Get (using an ICON in the upper right of the frame)

URLs are automatically recognized and made into links

Text surrounded by square brackets [ ] will be underlined. You may want to change [ to [

The TikiWiki has a nice what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editor as of Dec 2012.

The WYSIWYG editor provides a great way to copy and paste from a document/webpage which has lots of graphics, tables, etc.

PDF files and images: Now typically attached at the bottom of the webpage

If PDF/image file is expected to be used by more than a single wiki page it should be uploaded to a file gallery

A PDF file does not have to have an associated wiki page - but the wiki page can provide a good teaser, especially if the title is not enough

Upon uploading a PDF file to a file gallery, click on "Additional Information" to get copy the link for the PDF file which can be pasted into a wiki page

Note - I find it easy to have two tabs open to the Wiki during this operation 1 = wiki page, 2 = File Gallery for uploading

Note: You can just attach a PDF/image at the bottom of the wiki page, and later, if needed, upload a copy to the file gallery

Text formatting

Headings !, !!, !!! as the first characters on a line

Bolding: content to be bolded

Italix "content to be in italix"

Underline Text ===text=== OR [text]

Bullet List * is the first character on a line

Numbered List # is the first character on a line~/np~

Horizontal Rule ---- Looks nice, but does not seem to print out or get copied/pasted

Title bar: -=title=- creates a title bar.

Images: {img src=http://example.com/foo.jpg width=400 link=http://www.yahoo.com desc=your description of the image}

Simple box: ^content^ puts the content in the box. Content can include many lines of text more

Colored text: ~~#FFEE33:some text~~ after highlighting text, select color from pallet icon at the top of the page

Center text ::text to be centered::

Red centered text -=~~red:::centered text which will be colored red:: ~~ =-

Insert 3 blank spaces ~hs~ ~hs~ ~hs~

Preformatted sections: "~pp~ content~/pp~

Displays preformatted content; no Wiki processing is done inside these sections (as with np), with no word wrapping

Multicolumn pages {SPLIT(colsize=550|550)} starts column 1 --- starts column 2 {SPLIT} stops columning

Graphics formatting

Example {img fileId="1337" max="450"} displays an image from location 1337 and restricts the size to 450 pixels (about 1/2 page width)