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About the Tiki Documentation

Since the Tiki project started in 2002 there have been over 200 different developers working on over 50 separate releases (major & minor), creating hundreds of features, over 1000 preferences/settings, with over 1 million lines of code and 7500 wiki pages created in the tikiwiki.org domain.

Needless to say, developing an authoritative documentation for this open source project is challenging. From the beginning until version 1.6, the Tiki documentation was a one-man effort. The 1.6 Documentation complete with 350 fully illustrated pages with screenshots provided the basis for what exists at doc.tiki.org today.

Since that version, the Tiki project has chosen to eat its own dogfood. Not unlike a baby learning to feed itself, the results have been a little messy. We now have more than 2300 wiki pages on http://tikiwiki.org with several pictures and miscellaneous useful content. But as it's wide open to collaboration, it's sometimes also unsorted (or sorted in too many various different ways), and with an unpredictable degree of updating.

Since the end of 2006, a new effort has been put from Tiki community to have another updated single file for printing (pdf) with all relevant Tiki documentation for 1.9 branch, relative to installation, configuration, features available and tuning process (see Table of contents). Some more pages relative to the new Tikiwiki 1.10.0 have been added already in http://doc.tiki.org. By the time of this writing, this pdf document contained more than 850 numbered and indexed pages, to ease your off-line reading of documentation either in paper or pdf format. Moreover, this allows you make easier and faster searches of information in such a broad amount of pages covering most aspects of Tiki.

Current download links (document with 850+ pages)

A method for creating current and well organized documentation

Despite the chaotic fertility tiki hackers demonstrate at tikiwiki.org, there is a real need for a real classic linear documentation for easy reference. Many tiki contributors asked for a direction where they can help, and the fact is that such collaborative documentation work requires a strong focal point so people can work in effective synchronicity. The Tiki documentation is a collaborative writing project.

The documentation plan.

The secret to a well made wiki is having a logical structure so everybody can figure out the structure of the objects (pages) in the project and process by which they are developed.

Document Structure
The document structure evolves organically. There is a Table of Contents, but lately, effort has been focused on developing a knowledge base from keywords. As such, the table of contents does not necessarily link to every page in the documentation, but it links to all the major topics, which may have their own sub-pages.

Anyone who has editing privileges in http://doc.tiki.org can and should edit the table of contents page with the intention of making it better.

Documentation Procedure

The rules about how to document are controlled by via two important pages: the Style Manual and the Editorial Board. Documentation Status monitors requests for help etc.

  • The Style Manual contains the current rules/guidelines of how the pages should look when complete.
  • The Editorial Board decides on questions that need to be decided.
  • Documentation Status is a dashboard that monitors documentation status tags in use in the documentation.


The best example of a constructive change to the style manual is to create a specific rule that obeys a general rule that already exists. If you try to change an existing rule, expect some push-back, because you would be implying that all extant pages of the documentation should now be refactored to comply.

example: if the general rule is that an example should appear before the third paragraph, then you could amend the style manual to state that all examples should appear in a text box with "example:" in bold



Getting Support/Help

See: get help

From here:




doc.tiki.org

Get Started

Admin Guide User Guide

Keywords

Keywords serve as "hubs" for navigation within the Tiki documentation. They correspond to development keywords (bug reports and feature requests):

Accessibility (WAI and 508)
Accounting
Articles and Submissions
Backlinks
Banners
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Link Cache
Calendar
Category
Chat
Clean URLs
Comments
Communication Center
Compression (gzip)
Contacts (Address Book)
Contact us
Content Templates
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credit
Custom Home and Group Home Page
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Directory of hyperlinks
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
Draw
Dynamic Content
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gmap Google maps
Groups
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
Kaltura video management
Karma
Live Support
Login
Logs (system & action)
Look and Feel
Mail-in
Map with Mapserver
Menu
Meta Elements
Mobile Tiki and Voice Tiki
Module
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
Payment
Performance Speed / Load
Permissions
Platform independence (Linux-Apache, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Polls
Profiles
Profile Manager
Report
Toolbar
Quiz
Rating
Feeds
Score
Search engine optimization
Search
Search and Replace
Security
Semantic links
Shadowbox
Shadow Layers
Share
Shopping cart
Shoutbox
Slideshow
Smiley
Social Networks
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Stats
Surveys
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend, alert + Social Bookmarking
TikiTests
Theme CSS & Smarty
Tiki Manager
Trackers
Transitions
User Administration including registration and banning
User Files
User Menu
Watch
WebDAV
Webmail
Web Services
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki Syntax
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace
WSOD
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC

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