Getting started

Pages on a HonoWiki-powered wiki are written in wikitext — a light markup where a few punctuation marks stand in for formatting, links, and structure. If you've edited a wiki before, most of this will feel familiar.

Editing a page

Open a page and click Edit (or go straight to /edit/wiki/Page name). The editor is Monaco (the code editor from VS Code): as you type it underlines malformed {{ … }} includes, and if any are still broken when you save it blocks the save and lists them — nothing is submitted and nothing is lost, so you fix them and try again. Use Show preview to see the rendered page, then save.

The essentials

You want	You type
Bold / italic	'''bold''' · ''italic''
A heading	== Section ==
A link	[[Another page]] · [[Page|label]]
A bulleted / numbered list	* item · # item
A table	{| … |}
An image	![[Picture.png|thumb|A caption]]
An external link	[https://example.com label]
Include another page	{{Page name}}
A footnote	text<ref>the source</ref>

That's enough to write a real page. When you need more, each area has its own reference:

• Markup — all the formatting, links, lists, tables, and images.
• Including pages — reuse content with {{ }} and parameters.
• Engine tags — <ref>, <youtube>, <googlemap>, scoped <style>, and more.
• HTML / CSS / JS — the raw HTML and CSS you're allowed to use.

Finding pages

The search box in the top bar matches page titles and body text. It understands word stems — "running" finds "run", "Egyptian" finds "Egypt" — you can search a phrase in "quotes", and if nothing matches (usually a typo) it offers a "Did you mean …?" suggestion.

Page history

Every page keeps a full history at /history/wiki/Page name, reached from the History tab. See Page history & changes for how to read the timeline, follow a rename, or restore an earlier version.

Show something literally

Wrap anything in <nowiki>…</nowiki> to display it as-is instead of having it interpreted.