GWiki Quickstart Tutorial

GWiki Quickstart Tutorial

Loging in

After GWiki is installed and running, you can log in as the following user.

Please change this password as soon as you go public.

On top at the rigth side you can see now the GWiki menu bar.

There are links for editing and creating new GWiki elements like pages or attachments. In your user menu you can edit your profile, password and home area. The admin menu at the left side brings all tools and options to tune GWiki as you wish.

Creating your first GWiki page

The "New Element" menu shows all GWiki elements you can create with your given rights. In this step we start to create a normal GWiki Page. After clicking on the menu point we get to a new page with several forms. At first we have to give the page a title like "My first GWiki Page". Then we can start to write the page content. Here we can use a wiki-styled language to do all text formations or include pictures and links. The next picture shows some examples:

To save the page simply click on "Save", to discard it "Cancel" and to watch a preview of it press "Preview". You can also do some settings like turning off e-mail notification when the page is changed.

The administration menu

This menu allows to maintain all aspects of the wiki.

user management

The user management is accessable through the link "GWiki users" in the administrator menu. There you can easily create new users or modify their attributes like password, locale settings, their own userpage or individual skin of the wiki. You can also choose user rights, which determines the access on the content of your wiki.

import and export GWiki pages

These menu entries allow to import or export GWiki pages. If you ever change to a another GWiki installation you can take along your old pages.

delete pages

To delete GWiki pages simply click on the "delete pages" link in the administration menu.

global settings

To change global settings like the url and e-mail of the wiki, the default skin, language or installed wiki macros click on the "WikiConfig" Link in the administrator menu.

control panel

The control panel allows to show all pages of the wiki in a table. There are buttons for reloading the wiki, to show changes in the css styles and for reindexing the search index. It can be found under the menu entry "WikiControl".