The settings a page shows depend on what the page is for. A media list is asked how to sort its files; a share wall is asked when it expires; a git repository is asked what to do with an issue reported by a stranger. A standard page is asked none of those. So the list below is everything a page might show rather than everything any one page shows, and changing the Page Type changes which of them appear.
Everything here belongs to one page in one language. A group's own settings, which cover every page in it, are set on the group rather than here. See Wiki Page Types for what each type is, and Wiki Page Locales for how a page and its translations are kept apart.
Settings Every Page Has
- Locale
- Which language this copy of the page belongs to. Choosing another
language opens that language's copy.
- Page Type
- What the page is for. See
- Page Border
- Whether the page is drawn inside a box, and what kind. Solid
draws a plain line around it, Dashed a broken one, None leaves the words to sit on the page.
- Page Theme
- An extra look laid over the group's own, for a page that
should read differently from the rest. No auxiliary theme leaves it as the group has it.
- Page Header
- A page whose words are drawn above this one. Point several
pages at one header and they all change together when it does.
- Page Footer
- The same, drawn beneath.
- Table of Contents
- Whether a list of the page's headings is drawn near the
top. A page of two paragraphs does not want one; a long page does.
- Title
- What a reader sees at the top, and what a search engine shows.
Leaving it empty uses the page's name. This is the place to write a name in the page's own language.
- Author
- Who wrote it, shown on the page and given to search engines.
- Page Icon
- A small picture shown beside the page's name and used when the
page is shared.
- Meta Description
- A sentence describing the page for a search engine's
results. Leaving it empty lets the site take the opening words.
- Meta Robots
- What a search engine is asked to do with the page: leave it
empty to allow the usual, or say noindex to ask that it be left out, nofollow to ask that its links not be followed.
- Meta Properties
- Further tags for the page's head, such as the Open Graph
properties that decide how a link to it looks when it is shared.
- Wiki Source Publicly Viewable
- Whether a reader who may not edit the page
can still read the markup it is written in.
Settings a Media List Adds
- Static HTML Folder
- Whether the files kept with the page are served as an
ordinary folder of files rather than drawn as a list, so a folder of HTML can stand as a small site of its own.
- Directory Indexes
- Whether a folder holding no index file lists what it
holds.
- Index Files
- Which file stands as a folder's index, as a comma separated
list tried in order.
- Sort Order
- How the files are ordered, which is remembered for each folder
separately.
Settings a Share Wall Adds
- Expires
- How long the wall stays open to anybody holding its address. A
wall left open forever is worth avoiding.
Settings a Url Shortener Adds
- Url to Shorten
- The long address.
- Shortened Url
- The short one, shown to be copied.
Settings an Alias Adds
- Alias Page To
- The page this name should lead to, optionally in another
group, written as the page name, an at sign, and the group name.
Settings a Git Repository Adds
- Anonymous Issue Reporting
- What happens when somebody without an account
reports an issue: allowed, held for a moderator, or refused.
Settings a News Article Adds
- Banner
- The picture drawn at the head of the article.
- Caption
- What the banner shows.
- Rights
- Who the banner belongs to and under what terms.
- Abstract
- A short summary, used where the article is listed rather than
read.
- Article Date
- When it was written, given as a date or as a time.
- Page Categories
- What the article is filed under, which decides where it
is gathered.