Recently active ideas in PBwiki about PBwiki 2.0

i want to embed codes, like formula fields.
e.g. <original_author> <last_author> <last_edited>, the list goes on.

We are using our WIKI for our company procedures etc etc and have a requirement to review etc. also, it would be useful to be able to make assignments e.g.:
<set_last_reviewed>20080101</set_last_reviewed>
then later <last_review> and it to show the date. We want to have a rolling review process and don't want to have to manually maintain such things.

So suggestion 1 = Embedded variables
Suggestion 2 = Assignment of variables.</last_review></last_edited></last_author></original_author>

I think the point and click editor for the PBWiki could benefit from a 'remove formatting' button. I often find it difficult to switch from one highly-formatted type of font to another, or to remove formatting such as links. It typically involves having to delete the text involved, as well as any leading or trailing white space that might have taken on the formatting as well. Sometimes it requires deleting into the word before it in order to take on that formatting. Needless to say, this can be very irritating and difficult to work with. A way to simply remove formatting from selected font would solve the problem nicely.

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 like the idea of the spreadsheet (from the productivity options) in pbwiki. This would allow may people to work collectively & contribute to it. However, once this has been done, it would be nice to be able to export, save as a .csv file or somehow cut and paste the content into a regular Excel worksheet.

Any plans this way?

I would like to add a page to multiple folders. This is useful, for example, when keeping track of vendors and products; the Vendor folder would contain all the products for that vendor, while the Product Category folder would contain all the products (from different vendors) that belong to that category.

Any chance of doing this?

I would like to be able to list the tags used on our wiki on the home page and have that list updated as new tags are added to pages (this is similar to how many blogs are organized.) Also, display the particular page's tags more visible at the top of the page (or side, top.) Lastly, one other feature (also bloglike) is: when you click a tag I would like a slightly expanded view of the pages with that tag (like 3 lines possibly instead of the one line summary showing now.) I know this sounds like I should be using a blog instead of a wiki but I think adding some blog like features will allow us to add more content faster and locate it with the above enhancements.

In the Beta pbwiki, please seperate the initial options (standard templates I have to assume?) from our user created pages! Otherwise it force-mixes my pages in with a very long list of templates that I have no wish to make use of. It's great that those options are available, but I don't care about them nearly as much as pages that I've created myself. Hopefully they can eventually just be categorized into two groups, with the "I actually created these pages" group at the top.

I just signed up to try out PBwiki. When I first went to log in I got a page advertising an upgrade. That's fine, but why make the page so irritating? It looks like one of those hard sell websites selling something like How To Increase Your Biceps or How To Make Hell Of Money With Real Estate.

The "Continue trying out the free version" link is one full screen down, and it's phrased weirdly so it looks like it doesn't really take you to the free version.

"Continue trying out the free version
No thanks, just take me to my wiki" (in tiny text compared to everything else on the page)

It was literally my first experience with PBwiki. I can see doing the upgrade ads after I'd been using it for a while, but this sort of turned me off.

Have you planned fuctionality to support voting - like the thumbs up or kill in digg.com?
It would be great to have this functionality when sharing ideas with people. People could just comment on if the idea is good or not, without the (fairly high) threshold of having to write something.

Could we get an "edit" link in the all pages lists? This would allow us to edit pages that, say, contain a meta-refresh-redirect, and thus won't be editable by going to them directly. Or, even better, some way to directly go to editing the source, so that any errant html code is always accessable to be changed?

I am an educator. Today was the first time I took my students to the class wiki. While this makes perfect sense I was surprised and disappointed that only one student could edit the class wiki at one time. I know it sounds crazy, but is it possible for two or more people to be working on a wiki page at one time?

My idea to share is that it might be a great idea to create a space for only educators and their unique perspectives, questions and answers.

Thank you, Susan (MrsH)