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DokuWiki Newsletter team

Smaller and bigger changes are committed to our software repository every week. This time we present some additions to DokuWiki's syntax and search functionality.

A download feature has been added to <code> and <file> blocks. So now users can read the code with syntax highlightning and then download it by clicking the header. All you need to do is to supply a file name in the syntax tag, e.g. <code php myfile.php>. In the future, plugin authors are encouraged to use this feature if they are using code blocks when distributing their plugins.

Recently enhancements to table syntax were committed. Now there is support for rowspan using three colons ::: in an otherwise empty cell below the one you want to span. If any other text is present the whole cell content will be displayed as normal without rowspan.

DokuWiki user Kazutaka Miyasaka has contributed to make the Asian language search experience better. As a side effect it's now possible to use an 'or' operator (vertical bar '|' could also be used) with lower precedence than the default 'and' in search queries. Other additions are exclusion of phrases with -"phrase to exclude" and the introduction of groups. Grouping is done by surrounding words by parenthesis. For example '(darcs or spam) folded' will find pages containing 'folded' along with either 'darcs' or 'spam'.

Try all these improvements at the DokuWiki playground today.
 

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Entities are the feature that converts your => to ⇒. But reading the manual closely you will find that it can “replace certain characters or strings with other strings based on a configuration file”. This could be used instead of writing a simple syntax plugin.

So rather than enabling HTML next time you want to make a page a little more interesting, just create a ../conf/entities.local.conf and add your HTML snippet. In example:

<test> <a href="http://www.dokuwiki.org/" style="font-size: 40px;color: red;">Go DokuWiki!</a>

Now you are ready to use ”<test>” in any page, displaying a colourful link to DokuWiki:

During this autumn most of the DokuWiki documentation was translated to Russian, including the documentation targeted at developers in the devel namespace by one or more anonymous users. Thank you for the contribution, enabling more people around the world getting involved.

Initiated by a discussion on the mailing list, DokuWiki user “Laynee” went ahead and helped us to clean up the plugin tags, making the tag cloud much easier to navigate. Too specific tags have been replaced with more common tags, e.g. youtube with video. Non-English words were deleted and singular/plural forms merged.

Since some weeks the login system for the Wiki has changed. Now you log in at www.dokuwiki.org with your forum.dokuwiki.org credentials. If you had registered in the (previously used) bug tracker only, you will need to get a forum account if you still want your changes in the wiki to be recognized under your name. If you like to have your real name to be used in the signatures within the Wiki, just fill the “Real Name” field in your forum profile. Anonymous editing is still okay in the Wiki of course.