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Seanmac replied about 13 hours ago to the idea "Automated Page Generation Utility" in PBwiki:

I am loving the idea of generating a wiki from the backup zip. I would be interested in that. Tim can you let me know on this thread when it comes 'online'.

Clif replied about 17 hours ago to the idea "Automated Page Generation Utility" in PBwiki:

Hi Tim,

That's pretty cool. I'm sure there will be some interest in this.
Thanks for sharing your work!

Casey Greene started following the idea "Automated Page Generation Utility" in PBwiki.

Tim shared an idea in PBwiki about 24 hours ago:

Automated Page Generation Utility

on elothtes, I've created a tool for us to keep track of broken links and info harvested from the wiki.

http://elothtes.pbwiki.com/Mindless-Otto

The tool can be used with any wiki, in case there is any interest.
I've also got a tool that will generate a wiki from a backup zip, but I'm giving the folks at pbwiki time to see if there are any server performance concerns with this script before I distribute it.

Source in C# is available for this as well for anybody who is interested...

The Real Chuck replied 7 days ago to the question "too much info required on login" in PBwiki:

Oh, and to answer the original question how can I configure my wiki so visitors only have to enter the password, and not their name and email? have a look at this demo page.
Good luck!

The Real Chuck replied 7 days ago to the question "too much info required on login" in PBwiki:

wonder no more: it's possible, see it in action

A comment on the question "Vanishing comments in 2.0!" in PBwiki:

In this post 9/11 world... – Guy Fawkes, 7 days ago

A comment on the problem "Public wiki not so public" in PBwiki:

Yes, PBwiki often uses very creative definitions in their marketing and community materials. Mostly "well, technically, it *is*, but..."-type stuff. – Guy Fawkes, 7 days ago

Tim replied 7 days ago to the question "too much info required on login" in PBwiki:

I wonder if you could use javascript to replace the href of the edit button with your magic URL if you are not logged in...

Tim replied 8 days ago to the question "Vanishing comments in 2.0!" in PBwiki:

I have notices that HTML comments <!-- --> go away in pbwiki 2.0 wikis, but they are stripped right away in the editor... but that's another issue entirely...

Loudon replied 8 days ago to the problem "Public wiki not so public" in PBwiki:

Thanks guys for the response.............. I may have missed it, but if it isn't there I think it would be helpful to make it clear what pbwiki's defn of "public" is.................... not knowing about this feature has caused me significant incovenience and lost vital time on a community project I am running

A comment on the idea "I want Embedded variables/tokens in pages" in PBwiki:

I've done something similar with a Javascript implementation of what the OP suggested...a lot of creativity in here. :D – Vu Nguyen, 8 days ago

A comment on the idea "I want Embedded variables/tokens in pages" in PBwiki:

I've done something similar with a Javascript implementation of what the OP suggested...a lot of creativity in here. :D – Vu Nguyen, 8 days ago

Tim replied 8 days ago to the problem "Public wiki not so public" in PBwiki:

yeah.. there is no direct pbwiki equivalent of a wiki setup like wikipedia... although there are a number of work around..

Tim replied 8 days ago to the question "How do you rename a web site (URL)?" in PBwiki:

I have a script that will do this if anybody is interested... I used it to copy http://elothtes.pbwiki.com/ to http://centuryoffire.pbwiki.com to test it out... turns out that my script worked fine, but pbwiki.com wasn't super happy with the size of the operation... assuming that your wiki is smaller, it should be a pretty straight forward operation...

Tim replied 13 days ago to the idea "I want Embedded variables/tokens in pages" in PBwiki:

when I've needed to do this on my wikis I actually used a div tag (and set its name/class) to store the data... div and span tags by themselves don't really mean anything, so this is the perfect use for them.

A comment on the question "Have Business acct in pb v1; can we upgrade that instead of testing v2 with a free acct?" in PBwiki:

Well, I think Tim's referring to creating such a script on his end, which, if you are using the API, would indeed be trivial. For the POST...maybe you could make curl pretend to be you? May be easier just to wait for the proper function in the 2.0 api... – Vu Nguyen, 18 days ago

Nathan Schmidt replied 21 days ago to the question "Getting the API activated faster." in PBwiki:

Tim, just sent you an email, those are activated.

A comment on the question "Have Business acct in pb v1; can we upgrade that instead of testing v2 with a free acct?" in PBwiki:

Just to make something? Yes, we already have that. To make sure that all the wild and wacky things users have done with their 1.0 wikis don't die a flaming death when they are introduced to 2.0? Slightly more difficult. But don't worry, we're on it :) – Casey Greene, 21 days ago

Tim replied 21 days ago to the question "Have Business acct in pb v1; can we upgrade that instead of testing v2 with a free acct?" in PBwiki:

I've written a c# library that can use both the v1 api and the v2 api, so it would be pretty trivial to write a script that copies a 1.0 wiki to a 2.0 wiki automatically..... if the 2.0 wiki api had a method for posting data.