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blizzy replied on February 06, 2008 01:52 to the problem "Wikistyle bold and linking bugs" in PBwiki:

Thanks Chris. Yeah, I already know about the workaround. Just wanted to report it as an incident for fixing :)

blizzy replied on February 05, 2008 14:28 to the problem "PbWiki bogged down a LOT as my 20+ fifth graders worked on their pages in the computer lab yesterday." in PBwiki:

About the edit page error, this is normal behaviour for a check-in/check-out designed system. It is there so that when two or more users edit one page at the same time, one user doesn't overwrite someone else's changes.

The cause of performance degradation is likely caused by one or a combination of things:

1. Pbwiki server load/connection to the internet (which I think is highly unlikely)
2. Your school's connection to the internet
2. An external factor outside of pbwiki/your school, which include Hawaii's internet backbone ... or somewhere along that path.

blizzy reported a problem in PBwiki on February 05, 2008 14:10:

Wikistyle bold and linking bugs

An un-needed line break is entered between a bolded link and the rest of the sentence in a bulleted item. For example:

* **[http://www.google.com|Google.com]** is a search engine.

Cannot bold a wikystyle link in a normal sentence. Creates a line break between the link and the rest of the text. It also makes the rest of the text a bulleted item. The ** is visible before the link as normal text.

My awesome **[http://www.google.com|Google]** link.

blizzy replied on February 03, 2008 20:31 to the question "when i go to my wiki it said i don't have access to that wiki" in PBwiki:

You know what, I do vaguely remember an error message I received while clicking the confirmation link received through email. Perhaps the application messed up there and did not create the wiki properly.

blizzy shared an idea in PBwiki on February 03, 2008 09:05:

external links open in new window

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.

blizzy replied on February 03, 2008 08:35 to the question "when i go to my wiki it said i don't have access to that wiki" in PBwiki:

Like furiousgreencloud, I'm able to create additional wikis from the account settings page. Administrator access is retained when logging in and out... so I think this issue is only applicable for the first wiki site created during account setup. I've tried adding the original wiki page to the "My Wikis" list, but do not have authorization to do so.

blizzy replied on February 03, 2008 08:27 to the question "when i go to my wiki it said i don't have access to that wiki" in PBwiki:

I've created a new pbwiki account and was able to make edits to the wiki that was created for me during the sign up process. However, after logging out and logging back in, I no longer had administrator access to the wiki. Upon checking my "My Wikis" list, the wiki was no longer listed here.