User Wikis

Managing a Library as a Wiki

Capturing and storing little structured data in an easy-to-use fashion – that is what Seafile’s wikis are for. Wiki pages are written in Markdown (MD), a simple markup language, to ensure cross platform compatibility. MD files store textual, tabular as well as graphical information; You can also add links to other documents in a Markdown file.

You can manage a standard library in Seafile like a Wiki, with the "Column View" introduced in 7.0 version. Since Seafile implements wikis as standard Seafile libraries, they can be synced and shared with other users just like any ordinary library.

Column View for Private Wikis

Wikis usually have a side bar containing a tree-like folder structure, to enable quick-and-easy browsing of Wiki pages. Seafile's Column View allows you to manage the files in a library in the same way as a Wiki space. Users can browse in it and move files and folders just by dragging and dropping. File actions such as renaming, moving, and opening via client are available in a right-click-accessible context menu.

Public Wikis

ATTENTION: Public Wikis are accessible worldwide over the Internet!

Employees and PhD students can publish libraries worldwide as wikis.

To create publicly accessible Wikis, please follow these steps:

• Click on "Published Libraries".

  

• Click the "Publish Library" button in the upper menu.

• In the dialog box, select the library you want to publish and click the Submit button.

  Published Libraries](../pics/published_libraries.png "Published Libraries")

The left side menu can be customized via a file called "index.md", the content of the home page should be in the file "home.md". Both files must be placed directly in the root directory of the library.

Last modified by Marc Brendel, 2020-03-05