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-So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This tutorial will walk
-you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]], [[Git]],
-[[TLA]] or [[Mercurial]], and that has optional support for commits from the web.
+This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.

 
 1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
 
 
 1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
 

-2. Create the master rcs repository for your wiki.
-
-               # Subversion
-               svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo
-               svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create
-                
-               # Git
-               mkdir /git/wikirepo
-               cd /git/wikirepo
-               git init-db
-               # Git requires something be in the repo to start with.
-               cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
-               git add .
-               git commit -m create -a
-               # No need to keep files in the master repository; so at this
-               # stage, you may want to remove all files (except .git) to
-               # save disk space.
-
-               # TLA
-               mkdir /tla
-               tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki /tla/wikirepo
-               tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
-               # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
-               # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
-
-               # Mercurial
-               hg init /hg/wikirepo
-
-3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
-
-               # Subversion
-               svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
-                
-               # Git
-               # Create a local clone to save disk space and also to
-               # optimize performance. See git-clone(1).
-               git clone -l -s /git/wikirepo ~/wikiwc
-
-               # TLA
-               mkdir ~/wikiwc
-               cd ~/wikiwc
-               tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
-               tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
-               tla import
-
-               # Mercurial
-               # Mercurial uses a single repo approach, so no need to
-               # clone anything. Because the following examples
-               # refer to the ~/wikiwc working copy we symlink it:
-               ln -s /hg/wikirepo ~/wikiwc
+2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
+
+   As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source
+   directory, and outputs the files to a destination directory.
+
+   For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
+   for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
+
+                       SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
+                       DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
+
+3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
+
+   This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
+
+                       mkdir $SRCDIR
+                       cd $SRCDIR
+                       $EDITOR index.mdwn
+
+   In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like 
+   [[toggle id=page text="this one"]].
+   
+   [[toggleable id=page text="""
+                       Welcome to your new wiki.
+                       All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]],
+                       so this one does too.
+                       ----
+                       This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net).
+   """]]
+   
+   See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
+
+   Note that several standard wiki pages will be added to your wiki, from
+   files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will automatically
+   get a [[SandBox]], and some other useful pages.

 
 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
 
 
 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
 

-               ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
-                       --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
+                       ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/

 
    Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
    be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
 
 
    Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
    be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
 

-5. Customise your wiki. The files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/` are
-   used if you don't have a custom version, so let's start by making a
-   custom version of the wiki's index page:
-
-               cd ~/wikiwc
-               cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
-               $EDITOR index.mdwn
-                
-               # Subversion
-               svn add index.mdwn
-               svn commit -m customised index.mdwn
-                
-               # Git
-               git add index.mdwn
-               git commit -m customised index.mdwn
-               git push origin
-
-               # TLA
-               tla add index.mdwn
-               tla commit
-
-               # Mercurial
-               hg add index.mdwn
-               hg commit -m customised index.mdwn
-
-   You can also add any files you like from scratch of course.
-
-6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
-   the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
-   `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
-   (see [[usage]]).
-
-7. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
-   options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. And it's
-   also getting old to have to manualy rebuild the wiki each time you
-   change a file. Time to introduce setup files. 
+5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
+   the wiki. 
+   
+   To quickly get started on a common task like blogging with ikiwiki, you
+   can copy in files from the [[examples]]. The examples are located in
+   `doc/examples/` in the ikiwiki source package.
+
+   You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname`
+   and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
+   [[usage]]).
+
+6. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
+   options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. Time to
+   introduce setup files.

    
    A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
    
    A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from

-   `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it. 
+   `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.

    
    Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
    ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
    `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
    
    Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
    ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
    `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by

-   hand. `svnrepo` is the path to your subversion repository.  Make sure
-   that all of these are pointing to the right directories, and read
-   through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
+   hand. Make sure that these are pointing to the right directories, and
+   read through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.

 
 

-   If you want to use something other than subversion, comment out the
-   subversion configuration, and uncomment and edit the configuration for
-   your chosen RCS.
+   When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
+   will set everything up.

 
 

-   Note that the default file has a block to configure an [[post-commit]] 
-   wrapper to update the wiki. You need to uncomment the related block for
-   whatever RCS you use and comment out the other rcs blocks.
+7. Turn on additional features.

 
 

-   When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
-   will set everything up and update your wiki.
+   Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration file. Time to experiment
+   with ikiwiki's many features. 
+   
+   Let's first enable a key wiki feature and set up [[CGI]] to allow
+   editing the wiki from the web. Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the
+   block for the cgi wrapper, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper
+   is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!

 
 

-8. Set up [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
+   There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you
+   can uncomment, configure, and enable by re-running
+   `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`. Be sure to browse through all the
+   [[plugins]]..

 
 

-   Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the block for the cgi wrapper, make
-   sure the filename for the cgi wrapper is ok, run 
-   `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
+8. Put your wiki in revision control.

 
 

-9. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
-   setup a repository browser.  For Subversion, you may use [[ViewCVS]] or
-   something similar to access your [[Subversion]] repository.  For Git,
-   [[Gitweb]] can be used, etc.
+   At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control
+   system you can get history of past changes and revert edits. Depending
+   on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies.
+   
+   There's little that's ikiwiki specific about these instructions; this is
+   just how you put a directory under revision control using the various
+   systems that ikiwiki supports. Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is
+   where ikiwiki keeps its state, and should be preserved, but not checked
+   into revision control.
+
+   [[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
+   [[toggleable id=subversion text="""
+                       REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+                       svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
+                       svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "create trunk"
+                       cd $SRCDIR
+                       svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk .
+                       svn add *
+                       svn commit -m "initial import"
+   """]]

    
    

-   The `historyurl` setting makes ikiwiki add the links, and in that url,
-   "\[[file]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So edit
-   ikiwiki.setup and ucomment the appropriate `historyurl` setting and edit
-   it for your setup.
+   [[toggle id=git text="Git"]]
+   [[toggleable id=git text="""
+                       REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+                       mkdir $REPOSITORY
+                       cd $REPOSITORY
+                       git init-db
+                       cp -a $SRCDIR/* .
+                       git add .
+                       git commit -m "initial import" -a
+                       mv $SRCDIR/.ikiwiki .
+                       rm -rf $SRCDIR
+                       git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
+   """]]
+
+   [[toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
+   [[toggleable id=tla text="""
+                       REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+                       tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
+                       tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
+                       cd $SRCDIR
+                       tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+                       tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+                       # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
+                       # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
+                       tla add *
+                       tla import
+   """]]
+
+   [[toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
+   [[toggleable id=mercurial text="""
+                       REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
+                       hg init $REPOSITORY
+                       cd $REPOSITORY
+                       hg add *
+                       hg commit -m "initial import"
+   """]]
+
+9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
+
+   Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system,
+   you should configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your
+   ikiwiki.setup, and uncomment the lines for the revision control system
+   you chose to use. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to $REPOSITORY, if using
+   subversion. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision
+   control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block
+   appropriately. 

    
    

-   Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.
+   Once it's all set up, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` once more.
+   Now you should be able to edit files in $SRCDIR, and use your revision
+   control system to commit them, and the wiki will automatically update.
+   And in the web interface, RecentChanges should work, and files changed
+   by web users will also be committed using revision control.

 
 

-10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]
+10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]].