Revision as of 10:15, 3 August 2013

Mediasyntax is a plugin for Dokuwiki that enables Mediawiki syntax. It comes with a converter dokuwiki to mediawiki syntax.

Install it

• Log in as Administrator to your dokuwiki
• Choose Admin->Manage Plugins
• Under "Download and install a new plugin" enter

http://www.staerk.de/files/mediasyntax.tar.gz

and click on "Download".

The plugin manager was unable to decompress the downloaded file.

yast -i php5-zlib
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

/srv/www/htdocs/dokuwiki-2011-05-25a/lib/plugins # chown -R wwwrun:www mediasyntax/

Optional

• To use tables in mediawiki syntax, install the exttab1 plugin.
• If you want the "edit" buttons to be above and not below the section to edit, install the editsections plugin.
• Test your installation by writing a new article starting with '''hello world'''. This should be displayed bold.
• Use the converter at mediasyntax/tools/dokuwiki2mediawiki.php to convert your existing pages.
• To get mediawiki's style, install the monobook skin
• Change your dokuwiki's editing help (wiki:syntax) to look like this

Syntax and usage

After installation, mediawiki syntax is used to display your pages. This also includes the #REDIRECT command.

Images

Images: To add an image, store your image (let's assume it is called myimage.png) into the image folder (e.g. /srv/www/htdocs/dokuwiki/data/media/image). To show it use the syntax

[[Image:myimage.png]]

Demo

Here is a demo.

Compatibility

It is tested with Dokuwiki 2009-12-25, 2010-11-07, 2011-05-25, 2011-11-10, 2012-01-25 and 2013-05-10.

Developer's information

The mediasyntax plugin is derived from the cool creole plugin, combined with the goto plugin, which is now the redirect component. To download mediasyntax' latest development code, open a Linux console and type

git clone git://github.com/tstaerk/mediasyntax.git

You can also view the code online.

You can start developing mediasyntax.

See also

• mediasyntax on dokuwiki.org
• how to make dokuwiki a good mediawiki