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I'm using a public educational 2.0 wiki and this doesn't seem to work either. It redirects me to the User Settings page, and I cannot find a way to edit the text itself - only send the emails.

Nothing with the text is wrong exactly, but I need to change some of the wording and make it a bit more specific.

If the "Send notifications to the user making the edit" box is checked, all users will receive notification of the edit.

If the "Send notifications to the user making the edit" box is NOT checked, everyone BUT the user who made the edit will receive a notification of that edit.

Just a clarification on Casey Green's explanation re: "The first box, if checked, will send notifications to the users when they themselves make an edit. " Is this only or as well as. i.e. if I check this box and I make the edit will I be the only person to receive the edits or does it mean the editor receives notifications along with everyone else? – Jane Corin, on June 30, 2008 23:14

faheyr: You can't. The user must re-enable them the next time they log in.

If I - as an administrator - disable notifications for a user (in Monitor > Notifications > Stop Notifications), how can I then reenable notifications for this user?

There are a few ways to change notification settings, and some the admin can do, some the user has to do. I've tried to write them up as concisely as possible, so if there's a better way I could explain things, let me know.

Notifications are controlled in several different places.

In My.PBwiki.com

Log into your account at my.pbwiki.com. There you will see a list of the wikis you have access to. There will be a check-box under the column "Enable Notifications" that will determine whether you receive notifications for changes in this wiki.

Scroll down a bit, and under Preferences, there will be a drop-down box that will allow you to set how often you want to be notified of changes in general, for wikis you have enabled notifications for. Click the Submit button to save any changes.

At YOURWIKI.pbwiki.com

Go to your wiki and click on Settings in the upper right hand corner. Scroll to Notifications, under Monitor. The first box, if checked, will send notifications to the users when they themselves make an edit. The second box will disable notifications when new people log into the wiki, but isn't used much in 2.0.

If you or other users of your wiki have enabled notifications in their PBwiki Account, they will show up on this page, and there will be an option available to the administrator to stop them from receiving notifications.

In Notification Emails

At the bottom of each notification email, there are two links. One is to change your notification preferences, which redirects to my.pbwiki.com. The second is to turn off emails completely, which changes the drop-down box under Preferences in my.pbwiki.com to "Never." You are then redirected to my.pbwiki.com to re-calibrate your notification preferences.

I tried to do the share thing with 2.0 and it doesn't seem to work.

Does this share page work for the 2.0 wikis?

In the beta version, we've disabled Invite Keys - you can read more about this discussion in this thread: http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top...

I am using PBwiki 2.0 Beta and There is no link called "Keys and Access"
Please Help because I want invite some people wih an invate key.

It's a link in your wiki - log in as the administrator, and in the upper right-hand corner, you'll see a link called "Settings." Click that, and on the left-hand side there is another link called "Keys and Access" which is where you can set the invite keys.

Where can I find the topic "Keys and Access" and set up the Invite Key

Thanks, Stevo! That is exactly what I meant!!!
[I'm just a slug who never got around to replying (bad and wrong), and now has another piece of evidence to support the theory that someone else will do it eventually.]

Got it. This helps.

We'll be releasing improved ways to invite mass numbers of users in upcoming releases. But this really helps to understand the concerns here.

Thanks, Stevo.

Ramit,
I also have the same issue. I think what the inquirer was referring to was the relative informality of the invitation. "Check this out..." is something one might send to friends but not necessarily to colleagues. In addition, we might prefer to add other relevant information about what the recipient is receiving the mail, etc.

In the end the invitation-with-key process is not very useful to me, since apparently providing someone with contributor access this way, means (I think I'm right on this) that one never knows which one of the key holders might have edited a page. But if one wanted to send an invitation based on the user having a PB Wiki Account (which I believe will identify the user who changes a wiki page, then 1) there is no way to upload/cut-paste a large number of e-mail addresses nor 2) is there a way that I can see to modify the e-mail invitation the PB wiki sends out when using this method.

SL CUNY

I'd like to send e-mail invitations and have users set up a PB Wiki account, yhis apparently is the only way that one will know who has changed a page. Since I have almost 200 individuals to invite, I'm looking for a batch upload feature I don't seem to see, In addition, the e-mail that PB Wiki generates inviting people to the wiki is kind of...well, not my style, so how can I provide my own invitation or modify what PB wiki sends?.