Introduction:

According to {http://www.wikpedia.org Wikipedia}, as this manual is being written on 12/14/2004, a Wiki is "A Wiki or wiki .. is a website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows a user to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows that content to be edited by anybody."

{Cloud Wiki} is an implemention of this concept, supporting the {http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiDesignPrinciples design principles} laid down by the first commonly used wiki, {http://c2.com/cgi/wiki? C2}, with a small set of additions and removals to allow {Cloud Wiki} to act as a first class member of the web.  It is the stated goal of {Cloud Wiki} to be fast, succinct and functional for its users and easy to administer by its owners.

{Cloud Wiki} supports all the fundamental principles described by {http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiPrinciples C2's wiki principles}, with the notable exception of {http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AutomaticLinkGeneration automatic link generation}.  Instead of automatically assuming that words in a node's content are links because of the word's aberrant casing (see "{http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CamelCase camel casing}"), {Cloud Wiki} uses explicit {http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FreeLink free link}s; to delineate a link in your content, simply enclose a phrase with curly braces.  It is the opinion of {Cloud Wiki}'s developers that this is easier for English majors and other non-developers to stomach.

With the introduction of explicit links, it becomes rather simple to introduce {remote link}s, links to web pages that are not contained in the wiki, and various matters of punctuation and capitalization return to being dictated by the content language, not the markup.

Starting points for Cloud Wiki users:
* {Browsing Nodes}
* {Editing Nodes}
* {Wiki Etiquette}

Starting points for Cloud Wiki administrators:
* {Installing Cloud Wiki}
* {Customizing Your Wiki}
* {Backing Up Nodes}
* {Restoring Nodes}
* {Apache 2, Reverse Proxying and Your Wiki}

Useful information for Cloud Wiki developers:
* {Cloud Data Model}