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--- wiki:welcome [2014-08-03 11:49] – [Why a wiki?] mvader
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-====== Welcome to our documentation wiki ======
+====== Welcome to your new DokuWiki ======
-===== Why a wiki? =====
+Congratulations, your wiki is now up and running. Here are a few more tips to get you started.
-Software products and also hardware products develop at a super fast pace. The amount of different combinations and configurations has exploded since the advent of the Assistants. This is fantastic, but also creates quite a challenge: to maintain updated documentation. This wiki allows us to keep the (software related-)documentation up to date much easier and more as a live document. Everybody inside the Victron organization (Sales, R&D, Service) and even Victron customers and end-users can make changes.
+Enjoy your work with DokuWiki,\\
+-- the developers
-==== Commenting ====
+===== Create your first pages =====
-There is a Disqus commenting section below each page. Use it to ask questions and put forward suggestions. The comments are monitored by Victron staff.
+Your wiki needs to have a start page. As long as it doesn't exist, this link will be red: [[:start]].
-==== Automatic email on updates ====
+Go on, follow that link and create the page. If you need help with using the syntax you can always refer to the [[wiki:syntax|syntax page]].
-It is possible to get an email notification when documentation is updated.
+You might also want to use a sidebar. To create it, just edit the [[:sidebar]] page. Everything in that page will be shown in a margin column on the side. Read our [[doku>faq:sidebar|FAQ on sidebars]] to learn more.
-  - Register as a user and log in.
+Please be aware that not all templates support sidebars.
-  - Go to the [[:start|start]] page of the wiki, and then click the subscribe button in the bottom left of the page.
-  - Choose the envelope icon in the top right sidebar to manage subscriptions.
-  - We recommend the daily digest email.
-==== Editing pages ====
+===== Customize your Wiki =====
-To edit pages, subscribe and login first. After logging in, you will be able to edit all existing pages. There are two editors, a graphical one (CKG Edit) and one that lets you edit the raw text (DW Edit). Use the button below the edit box to switch between them. Both have their advantages.
+Once you're comfortable with creating and editing pages you might want to have a look at the [[this>doku.php?do=admin&page=config|configuration settings]] (be sure to login as superuser first).
-Tip:Try the DW Edit (Native DokuWiki Editor) first, as opposed to CKG Edit.
+You may also want to see what [[doku>plugins|plugins]] and [[doku>templates|templates]] are available at DokuWiki.org to extend the functionality and looks of your DokuWiki installation.
-It helps to learn, and saves having to formally learn the formatting syntax or markup language. In DW Edit you can copy and paste the syntax from an existing page, to create new parts of a page. Or just use experiment using the toolbar. It's less daunting once you try!
+===== Join the Community =====
-Handy reference pages.
+DokuWiki is an Open Source project that thrives through user contributions. A good way to stay informed on what's going on and to get useful tips in using DokuWiki is subscribing to the [[doku>newsletter]].
-[[http://www.victronenergy.com/documentation/wiki:syntax|http://www.victronenergy.com/documentation/wiki:syntax]]
+The [[https://forum.dokuwiki.org|DokuWiki User Forum]] is an excellent way to get in contact with other DokuWiki users and is just one of the many ways to get [[doku>faq:support|support]].
-[[https://www.dokuwiki.org/toolbar|https://www.dokuwiki.org/toolbar]]
+Of course we'd be more than happy to have you [[doku>teams:getting_involved|getting involved]] with DokuWiki.
-Victron staff will receive an email of all changes made.
-==== Adding images ====
-Images can be added through the media manager, and even easier is to copy and simply paste the image in the editor. Note that this doesn't work in all browsers and/or depends on privacy settings. For some computers it works only in Internet Explorer, and on others it works in Chrome and Firefox as well.
-Tip: use the Snipping tool in Windows to make screenshots.
-~~DISQUS~~