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Guy Fawkes replied on May 01, 2008 18:18 to the question "Reverting from pbwiki 2.0?" in PBwiki:

Good luck with that. They have stated that it is not possible for them to convert a wiki from V2.0 to V1.0, but it can't hurt to ask. If you want to get anything done anytime soon, however, you might as well go ahead and create a new V1.0 wiki and copy everything over there.

Guy Fawkes replied on May 01, 2008 18:15 to the question "How can I let folks who don't have a PBwiki account, edit my wiki?" in PBwiki:

There is no way to allow public access to a V2.0 wiki (aside from some hacks, which the engineers have promised to break in a future release).

You can ask for them to convert your wiki back to V1.0, but they have stated in the past that it is not possible. Your best bet is to create a new V1.0 wiki, which has the required features.

Guy Fawkes reported a problem in Get Satisfaction on May 01, 2008 16:21:

Replies not appearing in Dashboard?

This reply does not appear in My Dashboard. Since the dashboard is the only way to track replies to comments, I thought I should report this issue.

Guy Fawkes replied on May 01, 2008 15:32 to the question "How can I migrate my pbwiki spreadsheet to pbwiki 2.0?" in PBwiki:

Google Spreadsheets FTW!

Guy Fawkes replied on May 01, 2008 15:13 to the question "How can I migrate my pbwiki spreadsheet to pbwiki 2.0?" in PBwiki:

You can't. The people who actually wrote the "PBwiki" spreadsheet, NumSum, do provide a way to import and export data, but that's only if you use their product on their website. The version PBwiki includes as their "plugin" does not provide those capabilities. As far as I can tell, there is no way to get to your wiki-based spreadsheet from the NumSum website, either.

Guy Fawkes replied on April 30, 2008 23:40 to the question "Size information needed" in PBwiki:

Well, PBwiki is not a blog, so there are no "postings", per se, but pages instead. There is, apparently, a limit on the size of a page; I just created this test page, and it gives the message "Page too big to render - displaying source below". It's about 865KB of text. I have no idea what size you can get to before generating this message, and failure to render. Perhaps an engineer will grace us with a concrete answer.

Guy Fawkes replied on April 30, 2008 23:29 to the problem "pbwiki can't handle "%" in urls" in PBwiki:

Rachel: from the original post: "I'm trying to link to content that I do not control, so I can't change the URLs".

This happens a lot with European sites that have special characters in the page names (like ? or Ø. Those characters are URL-encoded as hex values beginning with a %-sign. As you can see, a PBwiki page with the Swiss name "Brü ends up looking like this. It's not always possible, or acceptable, to rename the page with the ASCII equivalent; ask someone who speaks Spanish the difference between 'añand 'ano'.

If PBwiki wishes to grow beyond the US, they will eventually need to support international character sets.

Guy Fawkes replied on April 30, 2008 22:16 to the problem "pbwiki can't handle "%" in urls" in PBwiki:

This bug has been around since the early days of PBwiki V1.0. They have never fixed it before; I would not expect them to fix it anytime soon. I'm sure, however, that they are "aware of the problem, and are actively looking into a solution that will work well for everyone involved".

A comment on the question "Page-Specific Notifications" in PBwiki:

My point was that you can't just filter out messages for a given page with the new notifications. That wouldn't be necessary with page-level notifications anyway. – Guy Fawkes, on April 30, 2008 22:09

A comment on the question "How do I delete a folder?" in PBwiki:

Rachel's post did not show up until *after* I created the screencap and posted it. Get Satisfaction is having some serious performance issues. – Guy Fawkes, on April 30, 2008 19:55

Guy Fawkes replied on April 30, 2008 19:51 to the question "How do I delete a folder?" in PBwiki:

Guy Fawkes replied on April 30, 2008 19:46 to the question "Page-Specific Notifications" in PBwiki:

Nope. In the past, PBwiki staffers recommended that users create email filters to sort out notifications. That will not work with the new notification system, however, which combines multiple page edits into a single email.

A comment on the problem "Firefox compatibility" in PBwiki:

I see I'm not the only one double-posting because of how slow Get Satisfaction has been lately... – Guy Fawkes, on April 30, 2008 19:39

A comment on the problem "Firefox compatibility" in PBwiki:

It looks like a public wiki to me. His link is to the edit view of the page, which requires a login. – Guy Fawkes, on April 30, 2008 19:01

A comment on the problem "Firefox compatibility" in PBwiki:

It looks like a public wiki to me. His link is to the edit view of the page, which requires a login. – Guy Fawkes, on April 30, 2008 18:58

Guy Fawkes replied on April 30, 2008 17:46 to the question "Wide-open writer permissions: can I do that? How?" in PBwiki:

"Unfortunately as you've noted they are brittle solutions."

Unfortunately, with PBwiki, that's the only kind. They'll find Osama bin Laden before V2.0 gets a useable login system.

A comment on the problem "sorting documents by time in folder(s)" in PBwiki:

You are correct. The features you seek do not exist. – Guy Fawkes, on April 30, 2008 14:38

A comment on the question "Is Javascript supported in PBwiki 2.0?" in PBwiki:

I tried adding jiglu to http://macewan.pbwiki.com , but it doesn't seem to know how to index PBwiki pages very well. – Guy Fawkes, on April 30, 2008 13:42

Guy Fawkes replied on April 30, 2008 13:28 to the problem "sorting documents by time in folder(s)" in PBwiki:

(A) Documents don't go in folders, pages do.
(B) Documents may be sorted by time, by clicking the word 'Uploaded' in the header.
(C) The 'AllPages' list of all pages can be sorted by date, by clicking the 'sort by date' link. I do not see any way to do the same things for folders.

A comment on the problem "Custom HTML - Where has it gone?" in PBwiki:

Come on, Sean, you know better than that. PBwiki doesn't *do* "timelines". – Guy Fawkes, on April 30, 2008 13:24