A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-11T01:02:04+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2022-06-09T08:51:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/bbcode?rev=1654764686&do=diff Friendica BBCode tags reference Friendica is using the BBCode markup language to format postings and comments. Alternatively the admin of a Friendica node can activate an addon to also support Markdown. How a rich text formatted posting or comment will be displayed in other projects of text/html 2024-02-26T13:01:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/wiki/syntax?rev=1708952484&do=diff Formatting Syntax DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing text/html 2023-08-04T04:43:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/start?rev=1691124232&do=diff [Friendica Wiki, image showing the project logo and Flaxy O’Hare the mascot of the project] Hi, i am Flaxy O’Hare, the Mascot of Friendica. Welcome to the wiki of the Friendica Project! This wiki aim to provide helpful resources for all members of the Friendica community, be they users, admins or developers. User Documentation #newhere Information for newcomers text/html 2022-01-13T21:25:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/de/start?rev=1642109105&do=diff [Friendica Wiki - Projekt Logo und Flaxy O’Hare, das Projektmaskottchen] Hallo, ich bin Flaxy O’Hare, das Maskottchen von Friendica. Willkommen auf dem Wiki des Friendica Projektes! Dies ist das Wiki für die Friendica Entwicklung und Gemeinschaft. Du findest hier alle Informationen rund um dieses, und mehr. Als Neuling solltest Du zunächst einen Blick in text/html 2020-09-20T19:19:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/de/docs/bbcode?rev=1600629582&do=diff Referenz der Friendica BBCode Tags * [Zur Startseite der Hilfe](help) ## Inline <style> table.bbcodes { margin: 1em 0; background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 1px solid #aaa; border-collapse: collapse; color: #000; width: 100%; } table.bbcodes > tr > th, table.bbcodes > tr > td, table.bbcodes > * > tr > th, table.bbcodes > * > tr > td { text/html 2022-06-24T15:49:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/smarty3-templates?rev=1656085774&do=diff Friendica Templating Documentation Friendica uses Smarty 3 as PHP templating engine. The main templates are found in /view/templates theme authors may overwrite the default templates by putting a files with the same name into the /view/themes/$themename/templates text/html 2022-07-05T14:40:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/abstract?rev=1657032057&do=diff Abstracts Using BBCode for formatting your postings, you can add an abstract, a short summary, to your postings. Especially in the case of Twitter (and other length limited networks to which Friendica exports your postings via the API) Friendica will try to automatically decide which part of the posting is relevant. But often you as the author of a posting knows better. text/html 2022-06-25T10:10:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/addons?rev=1656151801&do=diff Friendica Addon development Please see the sample addon ‘randplace’ for a working example of using some of these features. Addons work by intercepting event hooks - which must be registered. Modules work by intercepting specific page requests (by text/html 2022-06-16T15:20:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs?rev=1655392857&do=diff Friendica Documentation User Docs Help for users of Friendica Admin Docs Documentation for Admins of Friendica Nodes Developer Docs Developer Documentation Unsorted List of all Documentation Articles The following list is automatically generated. Ideally the articles should be liked from one of the above topics. Once this is possible for all the articles, this automatic listing should be removed.docs index text/html 2022-06-25T05:48:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/start?rev=1656136097&do=diff Documentation User Docs Help for users of Friendica Admin Docs Documentation for Admins of Friendica Nodes Developer Docs Developer Documentation text/html 2020-09-20T19:19:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/de/docs/addons?rev=1600629582&do=diff Friendica Addon/Entwicklung * [Zur Startseite der Hilfe](help) Bitte schau dir das Beispiel-Addon “randplace” für ein funktionierendes Beispiel für manche der hier aufgeführten Funktionen an. Das Facebook-Addon bietet ein Beispiel dafür, die text/html 2023-07-27T04:41:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/fulltext_search?rev=1690432881&do=diff Search in Friendica Depending on the settings users of Friendica can perform searches for various things using the /search page (or the search bar in the upper navigation panel). The search is performed on the Friendica node itself, so only the content known to the Friendica node can be found. text/html 2020-10-05T23:21:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/text_editor?rev=1601940087&do=diff Creating posts * [Home](help) Here you can find an overview of the different ways to create and edit your post. One click on the Pencil & Paper icon in the top right of your Home or Network page, or the “Share” text box, and the post editor shows up. Below are examples of the post editor in 3 of Friendica's common themes: text/html 2022-06-16T08:00:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/addons/start?rev=1655366457&do=diff Friendica Addons Official Friendica Addons Cross Posting Connectors To allow users to publish their postings on other platforms as well, the admin has to enable (and sometimes configure) so called connectors. Note regarding the Diaspora and StatusNet connectors, you only need them if you wand to publish your postings text/html 2022-06-16T17:29:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-entities?rev=1655400552&do=diff Friendica API entities Activities Attribute Type Nullable like List of Contacts No dislike List of Contacts No attendyes List of Contacts No attendno List of Contacts No attendmaybe List of Contacts No Attachment Attribute text/html 2022-05-03T19:50:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/image_description?rev=1651607429&do=diff Image Descriptions - How to add an description to the images your are posting You can easily add an image description (or ALT text) to an image in your postings. The text will be displayed when the image is hovered with the mouse cursor, and is used by screen readers. text/html 2024-01-21T14:17:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/network_filters?rev=1705846641&do=diff Filtering your Network Stream An alternative to use the filters explained on this page is to use channels for selecting the content one wants to be shown. Filter Addons Content Filter / NSFW The content filter addon is a simple filter, that matches words specified by the user to the text of postings in the network stream. If the text includes one of the words, the posting will be collapsed and the word that triggered the filter will be displayed to the user why the posting was collapsed. The… text/html 2022-06-24T13:39:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/addonstoragebackend?rev=1656077997&do=diff Friendica Storage Backend Addon development Storage backends can be added via addons. A storage backend is implemented as a class, and the plugin register the class to make it available to the system. The Storage Backend Class The class must live in text/html 2024-01-21T14:17:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/user?rev=1705846678&do=diff User Documentation A collection of useful tips and tutorials for users of Friendica. * Abstracts - How to use abstracts in Friendica (or how to apply a content warning to your postings) * Image Descriptions - How to add an description to the images your are posting * Setting up TOTP/2FA security for your Friendica account * Bot - How to create a bot to publish contents of a RSS feed in the Fediverse * Scheduler - Publish Content on a selected date * Account Delegation - Manage mul… text/html 2021-09-09T10:38:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/translations?rev=1631183913&do=diff Translations It is possible to translate individual pages into another language. For this purpose there are switches at the top of each page. If a page does not yet exist, the original text is loaded into the editor to simplify the translation. text/html 2020-09-27T19:34:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/activitys/hackathon2020?rev=1601235280&do=diff Friendica Hackathon 2020 We hacked the whole weekend to create a better experience of Friendica! :laughing: Here are some of the things we did: * Start a new Wiki (this one) * Many software improvements for the next Friendica version. * ... text/html 2020-09-27T09:29:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/de/translations?rev=1601198971&do=diff Übersetzungen Es besteht die Möglichkeit einzelne Seiten in eine jeweils andere Landessprache zu übersetzen. Hierzu finden sich im oberen Bereich jeder Seite die Umschalter. Wenn eine Seite noch nicht existiert, wird der orginäre Text, zum vereinfachen der Übersetzung, in den Editor geladen. text/html 2022-06-25T09:10:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/account-basics?rev=1656148223&do=diff Account Basics Registration Not all Friendica sites allow open registration. If registration is allowed, you will see a “Register” link immediately below the login prompt on the site’s home page. Following this link will take you to the site registration page. The strength of our network is that lots of different sites are all completely compatible with each other. If the site you’re visting doesn’t allow registration, or you think you might prefer another one, there is a text/html 2022-06-16T16:35:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-friendica?rev=1655397358&do=diff Friendica API Overview Friendica provides the following specific endpoints. Authentication is the same as described in Using the APIs. Entities These endpoints uses the Friendica API entities. Endpoints GET api/friendica/events Returns a list of Event entities for the current logged in user. text/html 2022-06-24T13:43:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/autoloader?rev=1656078181&do=diff Autoloader with Composer Friendica uses Composer to manage dependencies libraries and the class autoloader both for libraries and namespaced Friendica classes. It’s a command-line tool that downloads required libraries into the vendor folder and makes any namespaced class in text/html 2022-06-25T06:59:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/chats?rev=1656140349&do=diff Chats There are two possibilities to use chat on your friendica site * IRC Chat * XMPP/Jabber IRC-Chat Addon After activating the addon, you can find the chat at example.com/irc (if your Friendica nodes domain name is example.com). Note: you can use this chat without any login at your site so that everyone could use it. text/html 2021-05-24T05:54:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/home?rev=1621835671&do=diff Friendica Documentation and Resources User Manual * General functions - first steps * [Account Basics](help/Account-Basics) * [New User Quick Start](help/Quick-Start-guide) * [Creating posts](help/Text_editor) * [BBCode tag reference](help/BBCode) text/html 2022-06-22T06:54:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/themes?rev=1655880862&do=diff Themes To change the look of friendica you have to touch the themes. The current default theme is frio but there are numerous others. Have a look at the community contributed theme repository for some of the themes (and theme customizations) the community has created. In case none of them suits your needs, there are several ways to change a theme. text/html 2020-09-20T19:19:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/de/docs/home?rev=1600629582&do=diff Friendica - Dokumentation und Ressourcen Inhalte * Allgemeine Funktionen - Erste Schritte * [Account - Basics](help/Account-Basics) * [Schnellstart für neue Benutzer](help/Quick-Start-guide) * [Beiträge erstellen](help/Text_editor) * [Referenz der BBCode Elemente](help/BBCode) text/html 2022-06-16T16:09:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/api-twitter?rev=1655395777&do=diff Twitter API Overview Friendica provides the following endpoints defined in the official Twitter API reference. Authentication is the same as described in Using the APIs. Entities These endpoints use the Friendica API entities. Different behaviour * screen_name: The nick name in Friendica is only unique in each network but not for all networks. The users are searched in the following priority: Friendica, StatusNet/GNU Social, Diaspora, pump.io, Twitter. If no contact was found by this wa… text/html 2020-11-25T17:49:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/bugs-and-issues?rev=1606326557&do=diff Bugs and Issues If your server has a support page, you should report any bugs/issues you encounter there first. Reporting to your support page before reporting to the developers makes their job easier, as they don't have to deal with bug reports that might not have anything to do with them. Reducing the workload in this way helps us get new features faster. You can also contact the text/html 2020-09-20T19:19:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/config?rev=1600629582&do=diff Config values that can only be set in config/local.config.php * [Home](help) Friendica's configuration is done in two places: in PHP array configuration files and in the `config` database table. Database config values overwrite the same file config values. text/html 2022-06-24T14:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/connectors?rev=1656081065&do=diff Connectors Connectors allow you to connect with external social networks and services. They are only required for posting to existing accounts on Twitter or GNU Social. There is also a connector for accessing your email INBOX. If the following network connectors are installed on your system, select the following links to visit the appropriate settings page and configure them for your account: text/html 2022-08-24T04:39:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/developers-intro?rev=1661315940&do=diff Where to get started to help improve Friendica Do you want to help us improve Friendica? Here we have compiled some hints on how to get started and some tasks to help you choose. A project like Friendica is the sum of many different contributions. Very different skills are required to make good software, not all of them involve coding! text/html 2021-01-12T18:31:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/events?rev=1610476289&do=diff Events A special form of postings are events. The events you and your contacts share can be found at /events on your node. To get there go to your wall and follow the tab “events” Depending on the theme you are using, there might be an additional link from the navigation menu to this page. text/html 2022-07-18T09:13:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/improve-performance?rev=1658135620&do=diff How to improve the performance of a Friendica site Feel free to ask in the Friendica support forum if you need some clarification about the following instructions or if you need help in any other way. System configuration Please go to /admin/site/ on your system and change the following values: text/html 2022-04-22T05:27:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/initicalconfiguration?rev=1650605237&do=diff First Steps Once you have installed Friendica successfully on your server, you might consider some customizations to make the experience better. Subscribe to Relay Services Finding interesting contacts in a new social network like the Fediverse can be hard. To get potentially interesting content onto your Friendica node without subscribing to random people on different node of the Fediverse, you can subscribe your node to a relay service. These relay services take all public postings from sub… text/html 2022-06-25T06:28:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/settings?rev=1656138492&do=diff Settings If you are the admin of a Friendica node, you have access to the Admin Panel where you can configure your Friendica node. Overview In the main page of the admin panel you will see an information summary about your node. Queues The three numbers shown are respectively: - The retry queue: These outgoing messages couldn’t be received by the remote host, and will be resent at longer intervals before being dropped entirely after 30 days. - The deferred queue: These internal tasks failed… text/html 2022-06-24T15:41:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/tags-and-mentions?rev=1656085268&do=diff Tags and Mentions Like many other modern social networks, Friendica uses a special notation inside messages to indicate “tags” or contextual links to other entities. Mentions People are tagged by preceding their name with the @ character. You can tag text/html 2022-06-23T16:00:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/faq/friendica?rev=1656000006&do=diff FAQ / Friendica Common questions for Friendica: User FAQ Friendica is using a Twitter/GNU Social compatible API as well as a Mastodon compatible API, which means you can use any Mastodon/Twitter/GNU Social client for your platform as long as you can change the API path in its settings. Here is a list of known working clients: text/html 2020-09-20T19:19:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/de/docs/chats?rev=1600629582&do=diff Chats * [Zur Startseite der Hilfe](help) Du hast derzeit zwei Möglichkeiten, einen Chat auf Deiner Friendica-Seite zu betreiben * IRC - Internet Relay Chat * Jappix ## IRC Addon Sobald das Addon aktiviert ist, kannst Du den Chat unter [deineSeite.de/irc](../irc) finden. Beachte aber, dass dieser Chat auch ohne Anmeldung auf Deiner Seite zugänglich ist und somit auch Fremde diesen Chat mitnutzen können. text/html 2020-09-20T19:19:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/de/docs/faq?rev=1600629582&do=diff Häufig gestellte Fragen - FAQ * [Zur Startseite der Hilfe](help) Nutzer * [Warum erhalte ich Warnungen über fehlende Zertifikate?](help/FAQ#ssl) * [Wie kann ich Bilder, Dateien, Links, Video und Audio in Beiträge einfügen?](help/FAQ#upload) * text/html 2020-09-20T19:19:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/de/docs/improve-performance?rev=1600629582&do=diff How-to: Performance verbessern * [Zur Startseite der Hilfe](help) Eine kleine Anleitung, um die Performance einer Friendica-Seite zu verbessern. Vorab: Wenn du Fragen zu den folgenden Anweisungen oder zu anderen Themen hast, dann kannst du jederzeit beim Friendica-Support unter text/html 2020-09-20T19:19:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/de/docs/quick-start-guide?rev=1600629582&do=diff Erste Schritte... * [Zur Startseite der Hilfe](help) Als Erstes: Gehe sicher, dass Du eingeloggt bist. Wenn Du noch nicht eingeloggt bist, kannst Du das in dem Fenster unten machen. Sobald dies geschehen ist, schaust Du auf die Netzwerkseite Deines Profils. Klicke auf den Reiter