Recently active ideas in PBwiki about PBwiki 1.0

I would like a more fine-grained control of my search page. Specifically, I would like to filter the search results based on a tag. This would be awesome especially for larger wikis.

I have a business wiki for my business idea. But, I recommend pbwiki to colleagues and other organizations all the time. Many of them don't care and others sign up.

Does pbwiki have a referral program? I spoke to a pbwiki rep who mentioned this is a possibility. But, I have not seen any other information. One way it could work is by referring other paid customers, users can get referral credits to reduce the expenses for their pbwikis.

Any thoughts?

I would like to see more "selective notification" - rather than site-wide. The simple ability to "subscribe" to a page, or folder, or random set of pages would be much better. Perhaps a little icon under "Add Tags" that says "Receive notifications of changes to this page" or "subscribe to this page"...

We've launched our new version of notifications today! Find out more information here:
http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/06/16/new...

Be sure to tell us what you think!

ok... so I made this tool to copy content around between wikis... this is a beta release so it hasn't been tested in a ton of ways, but it worked pretty well for me.



You can use this to copy pages from one wiki to another... it may pick up your internet explorer pbwiki login and be able to edit wikis for you automatically, but if it can't then there's the option to login with your email/password...

the link for the tool is here:
http://copytest.pbwiki.com/f/VisualWi...

Given time, you could use it to copy a wiki...
like this one for instance... http://tsots.pbwiki.com
to http://copytest.pbwiki.com or... to be extra fancy, to a 2.0 wiki like http://copytest2.pbwiki.com

The somewhat manual nature of the copy should make it slow enough that you wouldn't trigger any pbwiki spam filters (a problem with bulk copy scripts that I've created in the past) so it should work well... very curious to hear your thoughts...

c# source code available on request. :)

I like to be able to search the content of attached files (*.doc, *.pdf, *.txt, *.tex etc) for a word. PBwiki has an editor search of its pages. Can the functionality be extended? How can I put a search engine like Google desktop search on my wiki?

In 'My PB Wiki' it would be great if 'My Wikis' could be sortable, rather than appearing in the order I created them.

Some people like to have a copy of a wiki for various reasons.

Often, they just want to change the name of their wiki.

It would be nice if the wikistyle for links is able to determine if the link is an internal or external link, and then automatically make external links open in a new window. This is standard usability best practice for links.

Yes, I know you can add the target="_blank" attribute and value within an <a> tag. I find it much cleaner maintaining pages without having to resort to HTML.

I wondering why you guys cant get a French version ?

just want to say that PBwiki Rocks the house at Seesmic. Keep up the great work.

I want Hints on links.

Our WIKI has three distinct sections, IT techincal, one page per screen, Procedural and Background information. At the top of each page we cross reference, so in a Technical page I will link to relevant Procedure and Background information. Currently we have the text of the link and the link itself.

Wouldn't it be good if we could have a popup hint for the link?

Are you aware of/participating in the Universal Edit Button movement? It sounds as if it has great potential to enervate a participatory culture and seems as if it is in line with PBwiki goals and objectives.

Check it out at http://universaleditbutton.org/
or on the ReadWriteWeb at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/...

We are constantly adding news listings for our company... we have to do this by editing the home page and then just placing the latest news on top. I know there are many websites that have a news tool that lest you add news posts that automatically show at the top and then show the last 10 or so... the rest are archived for people to go and look at if they want... you need this funcationlity.

Being forced to go directly to the page each time I want to save is a productivity killer, as opposed to having a "save and continue" or splitting the save into "save" and "save and exit" buttons. Please give us a way to save our work without leaving editing mode.

We've launched our new version of notifications today! You can find more information here:
http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/06/16/new...

Be sure to tell us what you think!

Hey everyone! The support staff has been working on a documentation manual for PBwiki 2.0, and it's ready now. Check it out at newfaq20.pbwiki.com.

This document will grow as the product grows. If you see something it's missing, just let us know and we'll add it in.

Thanks!

How do I create a new page?

There are two simple ways to create a new page:

One way to create a page is to click on the "New Page" button at the top of your wiki. Be sure to remember that you will need to create a link to this page later - otherwise, you may orphan the page.

If you have a reason to create a wiki page without linking to it, here's a little cheat - you can type the page's name into the search box in the upper right or you can just type in the new page's web address directly (http://yourwiki.pbwiki.com/NewPage) but remember that with no link to this page, it might get lonely in a hurry because people will only be able to find it through the "Show all pages" link (Located in the footnotes, under 'Wiki Information').

The second way to make a new page is to create a link to it. Wikis are unusual in that instead of encountering an error when you click on a "broken" link, the wiki will let you define it as a new page. So when you're editing your FrontPage (or any other page in your wiki), you can either type "See my news page" or "see my RecentNews". Both methods work - the first requires you to put brackets around the link you're making and the second requires you to use CamelCase.

Another way to create a link is to put square [brackets] around any word or phrase to create a new page. For example, if you wanted a page called "cars," you could just type [cars]! You can also watch a video that shows how to create pages:
http://pbwiki.com/videos/NewPage.swf

PLEASE NOTE :
'wiki names', 'page names' and 'file names' - CANNOT contain any special characters, other than a dash or an underscore.
All other special characters are reserved for internet use. Would you believe that 'the apostrophe' (') is the most misused character in page and files names?

Folks, we've noticed a lot of email invites to 2.0 wikis being eaten by various email systems.

I've outlined the steps you can take to get your users (a) Accounts and (b) access to your wiki:

(a) Get all your users set up with Accounts

1. Go to http://my.pbwiki.com and click "sign up" for a new PBwiki Account.
2. Make sure they all receive the verification email, and verify their Accounts.
3. Have your users email you from the address they used to set up the Account so you know who signed up with what email address.
4. Go to your wiki, and click on Settings in the right-hand corner, then Users.
5. Add each person's email address as a writer (or whatever access level you choose).
6. Each person should receive an email inviting them to the wiki. If not, don't worry, they still have access.

(b) Get your users access to your wiki:

1. Go to my.pbwiki.com
2. Enter the Account email and Password that was set up earlier
3. Click the name of the wiki you want to go to
4. Edit the wiki!

Note: If your users don't receive a verification email for their PBwiki Account, have them contact Support so we can get them set up.

We're working on ways to make sure these emails get delivered in the first place, but in the meantime, this is a reliable way to get everyone onboard.

Thanks for your patience.