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<a href="http://www.daemon.de/podwiki"><img src="images/podwiki-logo.png" border="0" align="left"></a>

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=head2 Welcome to PodWiki

This is the default index page of the pod-wiki.

Follow this link to learn how to use it: L<PodWikiMarkup>.

If you want to play with pod-wiki, go directly to the L<SandBox>
and enter some POD.

Or, jump directly to a page: P<intern:jump>

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B<PodWiki> by Thomas Linden uses L<PerlPod> as its markup, which is an
established language for documentation in the Perl community and well
known world wide. PodWiki enhances POD a little to circumvent some
lacking features (such as images or includes).

Beside POD, it also understands a shorthand markup which writes like
natural text and is very easy to understand for new users. If they need
more features they have to use POD; for simple pages L<WikiShorthand> is enough.
L<WikiShorthand> is the default markup if nothing is defined otherwise.

PodWiki supports includes, graphics, version control (via RCS), diffs,
merge-back, user/group authentication and authorization, page property
inheritance, variables, attributes and a lot more. The user can use so
called "formatters" to insert plain HTML or text content, which is very
useful for a stylesheet or example C code. There is also a formatter for
Perl code available which makes it possible to create interactive PodWiki
pages (note: for security reasons this feature is turned off by default).

The big difference from other Perl WikiEngines is that PodWiki is 100%
customizable, since the whole wiki site is driven by the include feature.
PodWiki always loads one page ("AutoLoad"), which includes the other stuff,
such as the Header, Stylesheet, Menu, the Content-Area, Edit-Bar, Footer
and so forth. This allows the user to fully modify PodWiki's look-and-feel.

If you are using Apache with mod_perl you can speed up PodWiki.
It's fully mod_perl compliant.

B<PodWiki> supports L<authentication|PodWikiAuth> by users and groups. Nevertheless
it is possible to work with B<PodWiki> unauthenticated. In this case you will be
logged as user I<anonymous>. Pages can be protected for reading and/or writing
for either one or more groups or for a single user. If you dont want to
be logged as I<anonymous>: L<register|state:register>.

Beside all those features it is still very easy to install, no need for lots
of additional Perl modules or cryptic installation procedures. Just do:

 ./configure && make install


The configure script understands some parameters which allows tweaking the
installation such as destination path or the like.

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This is the playground for B<PodWiki>. Take a look and try it out. If you want to
know more about it, read the L<User documentation|PodWikiHelp>.

Visit the project site which provides the sourcecode and installation instructions:
L<http://www.daemon.de/podwiki/>.

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