DokuWiki extensions (WvdS)

The DokuWiki extensions by Wolfgang van der Stille (The White Knight Labs) turn this wiki into a working environment: sign-in with a second factor, project and repository access, a database environment, a user-interface toolkit, and the markup that pages are written with. This page takes you to the right package and to the task you came to do. A link marked (de) leads to a page that exists in German only — that page is written, its English version is not.

Quickstarts — for every package, the shortest real path to a first result, in five languages.

Pick a package → install it (de) → switch it on (de) → check your role → check the result (de)

• A page uses some markup — which package owns it?
• How do I install a package on this instance? (de)
• How do I switch a package on or off again? (de)
• How do I update a package without stopping the instance? (de)
• How do I remove a package without leaving traces? (de)
• Which components does a package ship, and which may I disable individually? (de)
• Which role do I need for which screen?
• I am signed in and still refused.
• How do I request access I cannot grant myself?
• I cannot reach my account — my authenticator is gone.
• Where is a package's source, without installing anything?
• How do I clone a package repository?
• How do I write a package for this environment myself? (de)
• How do I submit a change?

A package's family decides two things. First, where its configuration lives: a wiki extension belongs in the configuration manager, an application keeps its operating state inside itself. Second, what a package may assume: an application carries no wiki terms such as page IDs or namespaces in its own subject matter. The dependency runs one way only — an application may use the substrate, the substrate never an application. When a link is missing, the consumer falls back to simpler behaviour instead of failing: services are looked up through the wkcore registry, never wired in.

They extend DokuWiki itself — markup, presentation, sign-in. Their configuration belongs in the configuration manager.

Services for the other packages, never an end in themselves. Sparingly configurable, because their settings are the foundation of everything above them.

Their own subject matter, with DokuWiki as the host. Their operating state — connections, policies, routine sets — belongs in the application, not in the configuration manager.

One connected chain, not separate plugins: every lower link provides services that the upper ones find through the registry. The do infix holds the suite together.

A template supplies appearance, never structure. What used to hang on the template — workbench, tab management, redirects — has lived in wkfluentui since 1 August 2026, because DokuWiki includes a template only after the action has been resolved. A template therefore cannot redirect, by construction.

Look-up direction: from markup you found in a page to the package that owns it. How to use the markup is on that package's own page.

• Package lifecycle — install, enable, update, remove (de)
• Components of a package — what a package ships and what can be disabled individually (de)
• Roles and permissions — who may do what, and how missing access is requested
• Styles contract — the --wk-* token contract: who may define which tokens and who may only read them (de)

• A package will not install, enable or uninstall (de)
• Signed in and still refused
• I cannot get through sign-in or the second factor (de)
• A page, project or repository is missing from the list (de)
• Clone fails or push is rejected (de)
• All symptoms with cause and remedy (de)
• None of this helps — raise a request with the administration (de)

• Package SDK — contracts, registry, events and the path to your own package (de)
• Tutorial: a package from scratch (de)
• SDK API reference (de)
• Styles contract — binding design tokens (de)
• View source in the browser · Clone a repository
• Contributing: what each role may do · Submit a change

• Quickstarts for every package
• Working with projects — from the project to the source to a submitted change
• Superseded packages and old page IDs — what does not run here, what replaced it, and where old links point (de)

• Name: Wolfgang van der Stille (The White Knight Labs)
• E-mail: Wolfgang.van.der.Stille@gmail.com
• Licence: GPL 2