Wiki software is a type of collaborative software allowing web pages to be created and edited using a simple web browser interface. This means that everyone who is a member of the wiki can contribute.
Because of hacking problems we've had to disable automatic user registration and login. To get an account please email John on his Univesity email address. Tell him the username you want and the email you want to register under. If you want to use a non-university or non-company email, please provide sufficient evidence that he know's you're not a computer. For example, include your favourite space group.
If you're new to wiki software, there are some instructions below on how to get started. We suggest you go to the PlayGround page before you make your first real pages.
If you're familiar with wikis, some site-specific guidance is:
Most pages can be editted by users but some (e.g. manual pages) are read only.
Enjoy!
Firstly, in order to read this website you need to have a user account, so please click on the login button at the top right of this page.
It is very easy to contribute into this website, just follow the instructions below:
To create new wiki pages linking from existing pages:
Alternatively, insert an external link () to an existing web page, so that people can access what you want to contribute.
Use this editor toolbar (below) when in “edit this page” to do basic text formatting, just click on the button and insert your text.
Special buttons in the editor toolbar (pictured above):
For help with text formatting go to syntax
On lots of the wiki pages you'll see that TOPAS INP file snippets are colour coded in a similar way to in jEdit. It is very simple to make your macros colour coded too. If you can see in the editor toolbar press it and this will appear:
<code topas>Macro Code</code>
Insert your TOPAS snippet where it says Macro Code.
If you don't see then you can just type the formatting flags in yourself as below:
<code topas> ...[your topas code over several lines if needed]... </code> as text.
Text files can be transferred directly from Microsoft word files to dokuwiki format. Converting Word files to dokuwiki requires a programme available for dowload from the internet - http://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:htmltowiki (html to dokuwiki). It needs to be used on Windows (open it with winzip, Use Evaluation version and open the .exe).
Steps:
Word files with images are harder to transfer straight to dokuwiki and require the help of admin. Follow the steps above for putting text onto topaswiki, but image files must be added to the right folder by admin. Contact admin if you need to do this (they will need to add the folder containing images that is created when the document is saved as a webpage).
Alternatively add images manually to the topaswiki page you have created using this button in the editor toolbar in <html><span style=“color:blue;”>edit this page</span></html>.
For any questions or queries, ask them in the TOPAS forum or look at the frequently asked questions link.