Using Powerwiki

Working with pages

Add a page

To add a page, create a link to a page that doesn’t exist (or visit it directly by changing the URL).

Links to pages that don’t exist will be style differently; going to the page will take you to the edit form (provided you have permission).

Delete a page

Remove all content from a page and save it to delete it.

Syntax

Powerwiki supports markup engines for writing in different source languages. You can add your own engine too if there’s another language you would like to support. Set the default language with the POWERWIKI_MARKUP_ENGINE setting, and override it by wiki and page.

Wiki syntax links

The easiest way to link to pages and assets is using the custom wiki syntax. This is available in all markup engines.

To link to a page in the same wiki:

[[path]]
[[path|label]]
[[wiki:path]]
[[:slug:path]]

To link to a page in another wiki:

[[wiki:wiki_slug:path]]

To link to an asset:

[[asset:path]]

To insert an asset as an image:

[[image:path]]

To insert an index table (list of child pages) for the current page:

[[index:]]

To insert an index table for another page in the same wiki:

[[index:path]]

Native links

The engines adds URL schemes wiki: and asset: to add explicit links to pages and assets. These urls will always be relative to the wiki root.

Relational links to wiki pages will be treated as wiki: links, but relative to the current page rather than wiki root.

Wiki slugs must start with an alphanumeric character and can only contain letters, numbers and dashes.

Page paths can be arranged in a hierarchy with /, but each slug must start with an alphanumeric character. Asset names must also start with an alphanumeric character. Page paths and asset names have no other restrictions.

Examples on a page animals/cats:

<a href=":path">...</a>
<a href="wiki:path">...</a>

Inter-wiki links:

<a href=":slug:path">...</a>
<a href="wiki:slug:path">...</a>

Assets:

<img src="asset:name">

reStructuredText

Normally reStructuredText slugifies links by stripping whitespace, for example:

`Using Powerwiki`_
# becomes
<a href="usingpowerwiki">UsingPowerwiki</a>

Powerwiki prefers to slugify using dashes, so adds two custom roles to the rst parser:

:wiki:`Using Powerwiki'_
# becomes
<a href="using-powerwiki">Using Powerwiki</a>

and for assets:

:asset:`Using Powerwiki'_
# becomes
<a href="asset:using-powerwiki">Using Powerwiki</a>