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About This Site
Mission
When I sat in front of different computers with various operating systems running with different browsers I was tired of always missing links to favorite or helpful internet sites and online information. So, arround 1999 I looked aroud for some handy online bookmark manager. I found www.myhq.com, fast and comletety based on text.
With the time these link list growed an my colleges are also interested in these list. So I decided to give the public access to it. Around early 2001 I decided to put create a homepage and put links to the four main categories of this bookmark list.
However it would be nice to have a little bit more information available as just a plain list of links, and so i decide to craete something wiki like that can hold descriptive text beside the links. Although my web site is called Tom's Elektro-Wiki you will find categories like Software or Linux. I don't consider this off topic. You see, nowadays even simple electronic devices house some kind of computer running some kind of software? What electronic design engineer does his work without the aid of computer programs. Who hasn't been …
Policy
Anyone is welcome to contribute. However, unlike wikipedia there is no button to create a login by yourself. This is because I don't have the nerves to deal with anonymous vandalism. Consequently, you have to write an email to the site admin to gain access. He will gladly send you a login. ~~UP~~
Technology Behind
The DokuWiki
There are many Wikis around in the web, however most of them require setting up a database. My philosophy behind the site (and hopefully behind all of my other work) is „kiss“! That is „keep it stupid simple“. In order to follow this approach my decision fallsed on DokuWiki that manages all pages as plain ASCII files.
- DokuWiki - You can download DokuWiki from Splitbrain.
DokuWiki was set up to run the Battlehorse template.
This site uses below DokuWiki plugin modules for extension:
- Blockquote Plugin 2020-09-27 von Anika Henke (previous author: Gina Haeussge)
Write quotations in a semantically correct way - Bookcreator Plugin 2024-02-07 von Gerrit Uitslag (previous: Luigi Micco)
Allow to make a book (PDF, ODT, HTML or text) from selected pages - iframe plugin 2023-08-17 von Christopher Smith
Allows external URLs to be loaded into an iframe in your DokuWiki page. - Plugin imagebox 2023-08-21 von Lukas Rademacher, CvH, Dr-Yukon, FFTiger & myst6re
Syntax for display an image with a caption, like Wikipedia.org - MathJax plugin 2021-11-20 von Mark Liffiton
Enables MathJax (https://www.mathjax.org/) parsing of TeX math expressions in wiki pages - Numbered Headings 2023-09-12 von Satoshi Sahara
Prepend tiered numbers as indexes for hierarchical headings - orphanswanted plugin 2023-05-30 von Doug Edmunds, Cyrille37, Federico Ariel Castagnini, Andy Webber, Matthias Schulte, Christian Paul, alexdraconian
Display Orphans, Wanteds and Valid link tables - PhotoGallery Plugin 2023-06-25 von Anna Dabrowska, Marco Nolletti
Creates a gallery of images from a namespace - PlantUML Parser 2023-11-02 von Kyle Carter
This plugin takes PlantUML markup from a wiki page and has it displayed in a user's browser. - ToDo 2024-05-10 von Leo Eibler, Christian Marg, Markus Gschwendt, Robert Weinmeister
Create a checkbox based todo list with optional user assignment (basic syntax: <todo>This is a ToDo</todo>). It can also be used as a lightweight task list management system. - Typography plugin 2020-07-31 von Satoshi Sahara
Enable typesetting capabilities with CSS font properties such as font face, size, weight, and color of text - Wrap Plugin 2023-08-13 von Anika Henke
Universal plugin which combines functionalities of many other plugins. Wrap wiki text inside containers (divs or spans) and give them a class (choose from a variety of preset classes), a width and/or a language with its associated text direction.
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