A local copy of PmWiki's documentation has been installed along with the software, and is available via the documentation index.

The basic editing page describes how to create pages in PmWiki. You can practice editing in the wiki sandbox.

More information about PmWiki is available from http://www.pmwiki.org .

Anyone with the password for the site users (sent to you) can edit the site:

Edit the home page (please be careful), or

Add pages just by referring to them by name in text on a given page, such as the home page. As an example, I created the page test page, which has a simple model of radiative transport in plant canopies.

The ways of creating new pages are described in the page Basic Editing on the navbar (sidebar) at left. Here is the text on that page, about creating new pages:

To create a new page, you need to edit an existing page, and on it add a link to the page you want to create.

To link to your new page, you must choose a name for it. The best names describe the page's contents well, so that everyone can remember and type the name easily.

There are two main ways to create a link:

1. Double brackets: Typing [ [my new page] ] will create a link to my new page?. There's a lot you can do with double bracket links.

2. WikiWords: On sites that have WikiWords enabled as link-creating syntax, typing MyNewPage will create a link to MyNewPage?. WikiWords are CapitalizedWordsSmashedTogether?, and, on such sites, don't need double brackets to become links. Note that some sites have turned off WikiWord links -- including this one!

You can see that the links to my new page? all have question marks after them. That's because my new page? hasn't been written yet. Clicking the link will take you to an edit form where you can write and save the new page.

One more thing: once you create a new page, if you want it to appear on the navbar at left, click on edit SideBar on the bottom of the navbar. Enter the name of the file, which has a path specified - you'll see when you get there.