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Tim reported a problem in PBwiki on July 17, 2008 17:25:

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Tim replied on July 17, 2008 17:20 to the question "Creating new wikis remotely" in PBwiki:

seems like a security concern for pbwiki.. they probably don't want to provide an automated way to create new wikis... in fact I'll bet that they do things specifically to prevent that from being possible..

Have you considered pre-generating the wikis and then assigning them to people when they go through your api?

They'd have names like mysiteswiki01.pbwiki.com, mysiteswiki02.pbwiki.com, etc but you change the title to be what they wanted... additionally, you could recycle wikis if your users abandon them.

Tim replied on July 12, 2008 00:22 to the question "Is there a random-page function in PBwiki?" in PBwiki:

additionally, pbwiki 1.0 has a built in random page function

Tim replied on July 10, 2008 00:59 to the question "Where's the Classic Mode in the editor?" in PBwiki:

if you read to the bottom of the thread, there is a link to another thread that will allow you to have a classic editor in your 2.0 wiki:

http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top...

hope it is useful for you

Tim replied on July 10, 2008 00:57 to the question "How do I add multiple users at the same time?" in PBwiki:

additionally.. you can add multiple users at once by putting this script on your wiki:

http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top...

Tim replied on July 03, 2008 16:20 to the question "Adding multiple writers simultaneously" in PBwiki:

for some reason, I forgot to paste the link..
sorry!!

http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top...

Tim replied on July 03, 2008 16:12 to the question "Google Indexing, 2.0" in PBwiki:

after you upload the html that I posted, you should go to that page, and use the form to type in the code that google gave you.

hopefully pbwiki will also add this ability directly to pbwiki 2.0

Tim replied on June 27, 2008 15:59 to the question "PBWiki vs. other document management solutions. Help!" in PBwiki:

pbwiki is a primative-at-best document management system. it is a wiki, which is a way to share/revise/edit/track *html pages* through an easy to use and robust set of user tools. Other document types are supported only in very simplistic terms. It's changing in this area all the time, but still would have a long way to go before it could be used as a document management system (no revision history is supported for documents, as well as no way to annotate the documents on the servers.. currently there is also no way to organize or even mark files with keywords, although these last two are coming very soon)

Tim replied on June 23, 2008 20:19 to the problem "case sensative sort of folders" in PBwiki:

in an ideal world, I'd like "Zonardia Locations" to show up *after* "seventeen final battles".. but capital Z comes before lower case "s"

Tim replied on June 23, 2008 17:13 to the question "Adding multiple writers simultaneously" in PBwiki:

in the mean time, you could use this to add a bunch of users...

Tim replied on June 23, 2008 07:20 to the question "Google Indexing, 2.0" in PBwiki:

You can't put a form on a pbwiki page. you can create an html page with a form on it, that you upload to your site

Tim replied on June 22, 2008 18:44 to the question "Google Indexing, 2.0" in PBwiki:

could be that if you put this into an html file and upload that into your wiki, then go to that page and fill out the form... it may add your site.. I've often experience with pbwiki 2.0 that the underlying functionality exists on pbwiki 2.0 machines that allows 1.0 wikis to operate.

<div class="step"><h3><strong>Step 5</strong>: Submit your site to Google Sitemaps.</h3><p>You can get Google to better-index your wiki by submitting your sitemap. This will also let you see who is linking to your wiki and how.</p><p>First, add your site to your <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Google Webmaster Tools Account</a>. Then, select "Verify" and choose the META verification method. Paste the funny code that comes between the quotes in the META tag given. So if they give you: <blockquote><code><META name="verify-v1" content="BunnyRabbit" /></code></blockquote> ...then you would paste <b>BunnyRabbit</b> below.</p><br /><br /><form action="/admin.php" method="post" class="add-tags"><input type="hidden" name="add_google_sitemap" value="1" /><input type="text" name="google_sitemap_verify" size="30" value="" /><input type="submit" value="Add Sitemap Verification" /></form></div></div>

good luck!

Tim replied on June 21, 2008 04:56 to the question "Files Security" in PBwiki:

I think that something like this could help:

http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top...

It's been my experience that increased engineering transparency helps with satisfaction.

Tim replied on June 20, 2008 22:04 to the question "Duplicate a page - or NEW frontpage" in PBwiki:

can you just copy and paste the source?

Tim replied on June 20, 2008 22:02 to the idea "It would be very useful to have a trash can." in PBwiki:

you could rename a page, then delete it much later.
or you could "hide" the page instead of deleting it..
also, you could download a backup zip regularly and could get deleted pages from archived versions of this.

Tim replied on June 19, 2008 00:49 to the question "How do I put HTML code into a wiki page?" in PBwiki:

I uploaded a .js file with lots of document.write statements in it and then inserted a reference to the .js file through a google gadget in order to get a form on one of my pages.
That seemed to work pretty well. Demo can be seen here:

http://copytest2.pbwiki.com/addself

Tim replied on June 18, 2008 21:54 to the question "Notification of comments?" in PBwiki:

of course you still need to allow them to make edits in order to allow them to make comments, but I think a solution for that's in the works too.

Tim replied on June 17, 2008 20:16 to the idea "PBwiki 2.0 Documentation" in PBwiki:

This site is great.. it's got much of the information that I'm expecting to see when I click the "help" link from my wiki... Any thoughts on linking it directly from there?

I think that would help new users because it seems hard to ensure that people will run across this thread while searching getsatisfaction for answers to their particular topics..

Tim marked one of Joel Franusic's replies in PBwiki as useful. Joel Franusic replied to the problem "problems editing a google gadget...".

Tim replied on June 17, 2008 20:08 to the problem "problems editing a google gadget..." in PBwiki:

awesome.. glad it's fixed!