How can I personalise the email invite text?

Oh. Any possibility that it could be rewritten to sound less spam-like?

Yes, this is a question that's persisted for some time. Also, I don't how anyone else feels about emails going out under their name without knowing or approving the content -- personally I don't like it and always wonder what ELSE they might send out as if it came from me. I know this may sound a bit paranoid, but I think it's over the line - esp for a company with a good rep and good vibes. <endofrant></endofrant>

I agree the text as it is now is not appropriate for an enterprise wiki.

I don't know whether it's an anti-spam measure but I do know that it will look like spam to potential invitees because it is not written in the kind of tone they would be expecting communications from my organisation to be written in.
It's a sticking issue for me, I'm afraid. I refuse to send out an email which contains the line "hopefully you can help me out as a writer" and a smiley face icon. It looks totally unprofessional.

Not to jump on the hogpile, but please record my "ME, TOO" vote. It is unacceptable that an e-mail is *EVER* sent as if it's coming from me without my express permission each and every time.

Many companies have gotten into trouble with this (Plaxo comes to mind).

I too want control over how I invite people to the wiki.

Good stuff!

I just noticed that the e-mail is sent from the Wiki Creator e-mail account, not the Contact Owner address. In my case, that's no so good, either.

The first time I invited my first test user to my v2 site, the invite email was automatically routed to the comcast spam filter of the test user's account.

I agree with the other posters that the current text is inappropriate for anyone that is using pbwiki for professional colleagues or clients.

If there are significant complications to allowing the administrator to edit this text, it would be good customer relations for pbwiki staff to indicate these complications.

Otherwise it appears to be a very quick short term project to modify the code to allow edits of the invite email.

Currently I will create a pbwiki name and password for all users and send them a personal email in order to bypass the current pbwiki invite text.

I agree with every one. I sent an email invite out to a new client as I presumed it would be fairly neutral. It was not. It was cutesy and it was completely the wrong message. Please let us have the opportunity to personalise the email invite as quickly as possible.

How will we know when it is up and running...

PBwiki does not usually make formal announcements when they roll out new releases of their software; they just slide'em in quietly. If I happen to hear about or notice that's it's been changed, I'll update this thread.

Is it this one that people object to? This invite?

For a professional work environment with corporate clients.

A PBWiki has been set up to enable purposeful collaboration. Here is an invitation for you join. Simply click on it and begin to participate.

Sent by PBWiki on behalf of (mypbwiki)

Thanks for your willingness to respond to our collective requests.

I appreciate the complications of having a spam-resistant invite message but it is worth the work to permit customization because it would allow the author to have far greater impact with the invitee.

Take a look at wikispaces to see how they have combined fixed text with a customizeable paragraph. http://www.wikispaces.com

The fixed text should be boringly factual without any cuteness or cleverness.

Thanks again

No matter how professional your invite message is, it won't do me any good for those people who don't speak English.

Plus, I have to be able to control the email used to send the message, since I use different addresses for different people.

I don't want to get into creating dummy accounts in order to handle registration for them - I've already tested this, and it's a nightmare. Besides, it's ridiculous that people are forced to "join" PBwiki to participate in a wiki.

The only solution for me as things now stand is to write my own invite, which will have to include a non-English tutorial on what they have to do to register, which also means having to translate what they'll see on each page. The hassle factor is really very high. Add to that the clunkiness of working with PBwiki (e.g., moving pages to folders), and it's got me looking for alternatives that are equally friendly for my computer-phobic users.