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| 1 | 1 | # Free Pascal wiki mirror | |
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| 3 | 3 | The official Free Pascal wiki at wiki.freepascal.org has been down for weeks. This is a temporary copy, so the material stays available until the official wiki returns. It is not the official wiki. | |
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| 5 | 5 | It runs on a small personal server. If you are able to help host or maintain it, say so in the [chat](/). | |
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| 7 | 7 | ## Where the pages come from | |
| 8 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 9 | - Most pages come from a full dump of the old wiki made on May 26, 2024, with its pictures. | |
| 10 | 10 | - Edits made after that date are still being collected from the Internet Archive. That is slow and will take days. | |
| 11 | 11 | - Each imported page ends with a note saying where it came from. | |
| 12 | 12 | - Some pages did not convert cleanly. If you find one, fix it or report it in the [chat](/). | |
| 13 | 13 | - The old wiki's [[Licensing]] page says copyright in its articles stays with the original authors. If you have concerns about material here, [message the admin](/wiki-contact). | |
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| 15 | 15 | Please do not crawl or bulk-download this site, because the server is small. The full dump is available from the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/wiki-wiki.freepascal.org-20240526). | |
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| 17 | 17 | ## Find a page | |
| 18 | 18 | ||
| 19 | 19 | Use the search box, **All pages**, **Random page** or **Recent changes**. A page that has translations shows links to them under its title. | |
| 20 | 20 | ||
| 21 | 21 | ## Change or add a page | |
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| 23 | 23 | 1. Press **Join** and confirm your email address. Saving needs a confirmed account. | |
| 24 | 24 | 2. To change a page, open it and press **Edit**. | |
| 25 | 25 | 3. To add a page, go to `https://pascal.chat/wiki/Your_Page_Name` and press **Edit**. A search that finds nothing also offers a link to write the page. | |
| 26 | 26 | 4. Press **Preview** to check it, write a few words under **What changed**, and press **Save**. | |
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| 28 | 28 | An account gets 20 saves and previews an hour. A page can be up to 200 KB. | |
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| 30 | 30 | ## Formatting | |
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| 32 | 32 | Pages are written in GitHub-style Markdown. | |
| 33 | 33 | ||
| 34 | 34 | - Heading: `## Heading` | |
| 35 | 35 | - Bold: `**bold**` | |
| 36 | 36 | - Code in a sentence: put one backtick on each side. | |
| 37 | 37 | - Code block: put a line of three backticks before and after it. Add `pascal` after the first three for Pascal highlighting. | |
| 38 | 38 | - List: `- item` or `1. item` | |
| 39 | 39 | - Outside link: `[words](https://example.com)` | |
| 40 | 40 | - Link to another page here: \[\[Page Name\]\] or \[\[Page Name|words\]\] | |
| 41 | 41 | - Redirect: make the first line of the page #REDIRECT \[\[Other Page\]\] | |
| 42 | 42 | - Category: end the page with lines like `Category: Lazarus`, one for each category. | |
| 43 | 43 | - Translation: add the language to the page name, such as `Your_Page_Name/de` | |
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| 45 | 45 | The editor cannot upload pictures yet. | |
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| 47 | 47 | ## Old wiki user names | |
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| 49 | 49 | The user names of old wiki contributors with five or more edits are reserved. To get yours, join under another name and use **Claim wiki name**. An admin checks each claim by hand. | |
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| 53 | + | *Where this copy came from: the full dump of the old wiki made on 26 May 2024, with every page's history and its pictures, kept by the Internet Archive. Anyone can download it there: [wiki-wiki.freepascal.org-20240526](https://archive.org/details/wiki-wiki.freepascal.org-20240526). Later edits come from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.* |