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TexasT replied on May 31, 2008 20:31 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

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.

A comment on the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

Yep. I boycott Plaxo and the rest of that spammer crowd. And a person who adds me to their account at any of those services runs the risk of having all their emails permanently junked. Plus, if I ever receive any mail from one of their other "contacts" that I don't personally know, there goes the relationship with that person: straight to the bozo bin. – TexasT, on May 31, 2008 20:26

A comment on the question "Tracking changes, including page deletes" in PBwiki:

Every page allows you to view its revision history, by clicking a link (in the upper right in PBwiki 2.0, down in the first column of the footer in PBwiki 1.0). You can also view the recent changes to the wiki by going to http://YOURWIKI.pbwiki.com/changes.php (YOURWIKI = the name of your wiki) – Vu Nguyen, on May 05, 2008 15:29

Rizal replied on May 05, 2008 15:11 to the question "Tracking changes, including page deletes" in PBwiki:

same problem with my kids in my IT club. Just discovered a girl editing another guy's page!

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David E. Weekly replied on April 16, 2008 22:15 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

As an FYI, in direct response to this thread we have in the last few days deployed a more professional text for inviting people. And we have fully customizeable invites on our TODO.

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Steve Brown replied on April 06, 2008 21:41 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

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

ripkungler replied on April 05, 2008 01:44 to the question "Version 2.0: How can I send several invitations at once?" in PBwiki:

Version one offered delimited lists and a perosnalised email option under share this wiki command..why is it not possible to include this in version 2.0

ripkungler replied on April 05, 2008 01:41 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

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)

Eric Suesz replied on April 04, 2008 18:03 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

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

David E. Weekly replied on April 04, 2008 15:47 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

Quick question for folks - I'm hearing pretty broadly that the text as is is not appropriate for a work environment. While it will take some engineering to add a spam-resistant customizeable invite message, we can very quickly drop in different fixed text. (We're still going to be doing this engineering, I just want to get a better solution in people's hands as fast as possible.)

So, any suggestions on how the invite email should be phrased to be both professional and effective in getting the recipient to confirm?

Guy Fawkes replied on April 04, 2008 13:49 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

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.

ripkungler replied on April 04, 2008 07:44 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

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...

Steve Brown replied on April 02, 2008 16:57 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

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.

sraymond replied on April 02, 2008 16:31 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

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.

sraymond replied on April 01, 2008 01:09 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

Good stuff!

David E. Weekly replied on April 01, 2008 00:21 to the question "How can I personalise the email invite text?" in PBwiki:

As a followup, this is now in the queue on our engineering tasklist.

Vu Nguyen replied on March 31, 2008 22:45 to the question "Pages not displaying properly in IE" in PBwiki:

Then it was probably a weird quirk with our content distribution system a few days ago. Please let us know if it happens again though.

Thanks!

KBCC Instructor marked one of Paul Singh's replies in PBwiki as useful. Paul Singh replied to the question "How is logging in with my PBwiki Account different from using the invite key (previously referred to as the wiki password)?".