====== TMwiki Help ======

===== General =====

[[http://www.topic-maps.org|Topic-Maps.org]] is a web site written collaboratively by readers around the world. Our goal is to build the largest, most comprehensive and up-to-date web site about Topic Maps. Topic-Maps.org is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWiki|Wiki]], a web application that allows users to add and edit content very easily. 

A important tool on this web site is [[projects:tmwiki|TMwiki]]. It enables the collaborative development of Topic Maps combined with a generic graphical Topic Map viewer (TMV). With the help of this tools, everyone can easily view and edit available topic maps. 

The project was started in Sep 2005 by [[member:ht|Hendrik Thomas]]. It was inspired by [[http://www.wikipedia.org/|Wikipedia]] (a free, open source encyclopedia), and by the interest of many students and professionals in a website that provides timely and useful reference information about Topic Maps.





===== Help pages for detailed information=====

  * **[[wiki:syntax|General Wiki Syntax]]**
    * [[wiki:syntax:node|How to add a note (Note-Plugin)]].
    * [[wiki:syntax:graphiz|How to add a graph (Graphviz-Plugin)]].
    * [[wiki:syntax:vcard|How to add a VCard (VCard-Plugin)]].
  * **[[wiki:playground|Wiki Playground]]**
  * **[[projects:|Topic Map projekt help pages]]**
  * **[[wiki:help:xml|Correctness in an XML documents]]**

===== How to work with a Wiki =====

==== Edit an existing Page ====

All visitors may edit Topic-Map.org’s articles and have their changes be instantly displayed. The articles are not controlled by any particular user or editorial group. It is our belief that collaboration among users will improve articles over time. 

**Don't be afraid to edit pages on Topic-Map.org’s ** - anyone can edit and we encourage users to be bold! Find something that can be improved, either in content, grammar or formatting, then fix it. Worried about breaking Topic-Map.org’s? Don't be: it can always be fixed or improved later. So go ahead, edit an article and help us enlarge Topic-Map.org’s.

Editing is very easy:

  - Click "edit this page" at the top or bottom of the page. 
  - Type a message.
  - Click "save" at the bottom of the page to save your writing or click "preview" to test your changes.

To learn more about the editing options, please go to [[wiki:syntax]] for details. You can make your first editing experience on the [[wiki:playground]] page. The playground is an area that is set aside just for testing and learning. Feel free to add and/or delete things there, but don’t leave anything important there. It’s just temporary space, so the next person learning in this sandbox may change, add to, or erase the stuff you did.

==== Create a New Page ====

To create a new page, simply create a 
[[http://www.topic-maps.org/wiki:syntax#internal|internal link]] (using square brackets) and save the current page. Then follow this link and click on the "create this page" button. Alternatively, you can enter the name of a new page directly in the search window, and click the “Search” button. If the page you requested does not exist, the Wiki will ask if you want to create that page. Click the "create this page" button to create a new page.

**Dive in, and have fun! Welcome to the Topic-Map.org Community!**


===== License =====


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