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You may have many documents that you would like to use a local program to format in a format PmWiki can display.

You could open each document and copy/paste the content to new pmwiki pages or you could format the document in advance and upload it using a FTP client.

Only two lines are necessary in a PmWiki page file:

version=pmwiki-2.1.0 urlencoded=1
text=Markup text

The first line tells PmWiki that the values are urlencoded. The actual value of the "version=" parameter doesn't matter, as long as "urlencoded=1" appears somewhere in the line. The markup text needs to have newlines converted to "%0a" and percent signs converted to "%25".

Keys you could see in a raw PmWiki file:

version: Version of PmWiki used to create the file More??? (ordered, urlencoded)
agent: Author's browser when saving the page
author: Last author to save page
csum: Change summary
ctime: Page creation time
host: Host created this page
name: Name of the page (e.g., Main.WikiSandbox)
rev: Number of times the page has been edited
targets: Targets for links in the page
text: The page's wiki markup
time: Time the page was last saved (seconds since 1 Jan 1970 00:00 UTC)
title: Page title set via (:title The Page Title:).
newline: Character used for newlines (deprecated)

Below these you will see information used to keep track of the page's revision history.

Creating a Page for Distribution

A simple way to create a wikipage file to for distribution (for example with a recipe or a skin) is to create the page with PmWiki and then use a text editor to delete all lines but version, text, and ctime. Example:

version=pmwiki-2.1.0 ordered=1 urlencoded=1
text=This is a line.%0aThis is another.
ctime=1142030000

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