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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 | |
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| 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 | + | ## Page history | |
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| 19 | + | Under each page from the old wiki, **Edited on wiki.freepascal.org by ...** opens the list of who edited it there and when, back to 2005, with their notes. The same list is on the page's **History**. It comes from the old wiki's backup, so the people who wrote these pages keep the credit for them. | |
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| 21 | + | The text of the old versions was not brought over. The old wiki was written in MediaWiki's own markup, and converting its 126,000 old versions to the Markdown used here would have added many errors, while the current text of every page is already here. Every old version is still in the [full backup at the Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/wiki-wiki.freepascal.org-20240526). Edits made on the old wiki after 26 May 2024 were not recorded: for those pages the text here is the last copy the Wayback Machine kept. | |
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| 17 | 23 | ## Find a page | |
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| 19 | 25 | Use the search box, **All pages**, **Random page** or **Recent changes**. A page that has translations shows links to them under its title. | |
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| 21 | 27 | ## Change or add a page | |
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| 23 | 29 | 1. Press **Join** and confirm your email address. Saving needs a confirmed account. | |
| 24 | 30 | 2. To change a page, open it and press **Edit**. | |
| 25 | 31 | 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 | 32 | 4. Press **Preview** to check it, write a few words under **What changed**, and press **Save**. | |
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| 28 | 34 | An account gets 20 saves and previews an hour. A page can be up to 200 KB. | |
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| 30 | 36 | ## Formatting | |
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| 32 | 38 | Pages are written in GitHub-style Markdown. | |
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| 34 | 40 | - Heading: `## Heading` | |
| 35 | 41 | - Bold: `**bold**` | |
| 36 | 42 | - Code in a sentence: put one backtick on each side. | |
| 37 | 43 | - Code block: put a line of three backticks before and after it. Add `pascal` after the first three for Pascal highlighting. | |
| 38 | 44 | - List: `- item` or `1. item` | |
| 39 | 45 | - Outside link: `[words](https://example.com)` | |
| 40 | 46 | - Link to another page here: \[\[Page Name\]\] or \[\[Page Name|words\]\] | |
| 41 | 47 | - Redirect: make the first line of the page #REDIRECT \[\[Other Page\]\] | |
| 42 | 48 | - Category: end the page with lines like `Category: Lazarus`, one for each category. | |
| 43 | 49 | - Translation: add the language to the page name, such as `Your_Page_Name/de` | |
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| 45 | 51 | The editor cannot upload pictures yet. | |
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| 47 | 53 | ## Old wiki user names | |
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| 49 | 55 | 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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| 51 | 57 | --- | |
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| 53 | 59 | *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.* |