Reference documentation

Main documentation

Installation Guide

The first document to read if you want to install Wikidot

Wiki Syntax Guide

Guide to the wiki markup language that is used to create pages.

Structure of a wiki

How each of the Wikis are organized.

More docs can be found at http://www.wikidot.com/doc (at Wikidot.com) — we are planning to migrate them to here.

Deprecated (but may be still useful)

Installation handbook

How to get Wikidot up and running on your own server.

Debian/Ubuntu quickstart

Get Wikidot up and running within minutes on a fresh Debian 4.0 or Ununtu 7.10 installation.

Tweaks, common problems and solutions

PCRE tweaks

This may help if you have long pages that gives you 500 AJAX errors.

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All these documents are user-editable and available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License — feel free to improve them!