The dictionary markup can be used to store key-value pairs like in a dictionary or glossary. It uses definition lists (see HelpOnLists). A dictionary page used by the system has to have a name ending with Dict (see page_dict_regex on the page HelpOnConfiguration).
Dictionaries can be either shared or private (only you have read access to them under your homepage).
How does it look?
This is an example:
- var1
- value1
- var2
- value2
- var3
- value3
And it looks like this in the page source:
var1:: value1 var2:: value2 var3:: value3
![/!\](/moin_static199/mandarin/img/alert.png "/!\")
The leading space and the space after '::' are important.
See also HelpOnVariables
Dictionaries for translations
Dictionaries can be used to translate user-specified words with auto-substitution1. If you want to use that a dictionary has to be named in the form LanguageDict (examples: GermanDict, FrenchDict, SpanishDict, etc.).