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Cautions about differences from MediaWiki markup syntax

At first glance, DokuWiki markup looks a lot like MediaWiki markup, but while it has the same markup flavor, it is actually significantly different in many details.

  1. Headlines (headings) are defined by equal signs (like "=====Heading====="), but they may ONLY contain text. Especially, NO links are allowed in Headlines, while MediaWiki does allow links there. More info is here: https://www.dokuwiki.org/faq:headerlinks
  2. More '='s makes BIGGER headline text, not smaller. I use 4, 5, and 6 '='s as small, medium, and large (top of page) headings, what would be 3, 2, and 1 '='s in MediaWiki.
  3. The characters to start a list item are '*' for unordered, and '-' for ordered (NOT '#'). They MUST be indented by 2 spaces, they do NOT work at the left margin. For each further list indent, add 2 more spaces, NOT another '*' or '-'.
  4. To force a new line, use '\\' at the end of a line, or '\\ ' in the middle of a line. An empty line is a paragraph separator, which causes a new line followed by an empty line .
  5. To prevent characters from being interpreted as markup, bracket them with '%%'.
  6. There is no Page Title stored outside of the page markup, partly because there is no database to store it in. FSGW has DokuWiki configured to use the first Headline on the page as the page title.
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