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Mike replied on May 16, 2008 19:57 to the question "Hiding controls switch for read-only view?" in PBwiki:

Readers shouldn't see those tools at all. In fact, the whole area isn't displayed for readers unless you've set tags or the page is in a folder.

A comment on the idea "Add page to multiple folders" in PBwiki:

On the edit screen, next to the tags field, there is a link that says "Show All Tags". – Mike, on April 28, 2008 19:19

Mike replied on March 10, 2008 20:07 to the question "PBwiki 2.0 password?" in PBwiki:

Hi charming, thanks for your feedback. PBwiki 2.0 is in beta right now, and that probably means it shouldn't be used for important stuff. Maybe we should make that more clear? You can still create a 1.0 wiki by skipping the beta section in the signup form.

During the 2.0 testing period, invite keys are disabled. We've found that logging in is one of the more difficult aspects of PBwiki, and for the time being, we've simplified things to just use accounts. Of course, we realize that this is less than ideal for educators whose students don't have or can't use email addresses, and finding a system that works for those wikis is a high priority.

Mike replied on February 12, 2008 21:22 to the question "Embedding Forms?" in PBwiki:

Do you mean that the page displays the form, but when you fill it out, it doesn't do anything? PBwiki doesn't directly support collecting form data, but it is possible to use other services like Wufoo (http://wufoo.com/) to build your form, embed it in your wiki and collect the data.

Mike replied on February 05, 2008 03:28 to the problem "Login screen saves email address, but not name or notification preference" in PBwiki:

Thanks for the heads up. We're almost ready with a fix for this bug, I'm hoping it will be ready by tomorrow.

Mike replied on February 05, 2008 03:22 to the problem "I am the creator/administrator of a private wiki, but I cannot log in to the wiki." in PBwiki:

This is actually two different bugs.

1. Not being able to log in as an administrator: We've fixed this, and you should be able to log in with your account with no problems. Contact support if this is not the case.

2. Sharing doesn't work on wikis without invite keys: While we work on this bug, the workaround is to add users from the Admin panel. Go to Settings, then Users, Add users section, and enter email addresses in the form.

Mike replied on February 01, 2008 21:54 to the question "Tagging in Web 2.0" in PBwiki:

Hi seanmac,

Most of your suggestions are already in PBwiki 2.0! We don't have predictive (autocomplete?) tagging, but that's a good suggestion. When we look at ways to make tagging more useful, we will consider that.

Mike replied on February 01, 2008 03:19 to the question "How do I create a PBwiki account?" in PBwiki:

Go to MyPBwiki to create your account.

If you created a wiki after January 24th, 2008, you already have an account, because the wiki creation process now asks you to create one.

Mike asked a question in PBwiki on February 01, 2008 03:07:

How do I create a PBwiki account?

Mike replied on February 01, 2008 00:23 to the idea "Suggestion: make tags case-insensitive" in PBwiki:

Thanks for that suggestion Max, I'll make sure that goes into PBwiki 2.0.

Mike replied on January 31, 2008 22:54 to the problem "Log in problems" in PBwiki:

If you need to file a support ticket and can't get to your wiki, please go to http://pbwiki.com/help.php

Mike replied on January 31, 2008 22:53 to the question "How do stop people from changing the pages without them logging in (instead of getting "Someone unknown changed...)?" in PBwiki:

Another possibility is that people are using share links to get access to the wiki. Changing the invite key (wiki password) would mean people would have to type it in to the login form along with their name and email address.

Mike replied on January 31, 2008 22:45 to the question "I just created a new wiki and got the sidebar, but not the quickstart and recent changes tabs. I would like to have those--how can I get them to display, please? thanks" in PBwiki:

You'll need to file a support ticket to change your sidebar. Start by clicking the help link on your wiki.

Mike replied on January 31, 2008 22:34 to the idea "More standard CSS designs!" in PBwiki:

Yes, uploading logos is something that's high on our list of features for customizing PBwiki.

Mike replied on January 31, 2008 22:20 to the problem "Blockquotes break layout in IE6/7" in PBwiki:

One of the changes we've made in PBwiki 2.0 is moving the sidebar out of the flow of the page. This should help solve a lot of these kinds of problems.

Mike replied on January 31, 2008 22:12 to the idea "More standard CSS designs!" in PBwiki:

Unfortunately, having a lot of skins tends to make it much slower to build new features for PBwiki, because we have to make sure each page looks right on every skin.

Skin/theme support is not yet available in PBwiki 2.0, but I think we're leaning towards providing the basic 2.0 skin with a number of color choices, and ultimately the ability to define your own color scheme. We'd love to hear feedback from the community about how this feature should evolve.

Mike replied on January 30, 2008 22:18 to the problem "Access-by-email doesn't seem to work for our domain" in PBwiki:

Thanks for telling us about this issue. We've entered it into our bug system and our engineers will be working on it!

Mike replied on January 30, 2008 22:08 to the question "email message has "+" sign between all words" in PBwiki:

This looks like a bug in our system. Thanks for finding it and bringing it to our attention! I've entered it into our bug system so the engineering team can get to work on it.

Mike replied on January 30, 2008 21:48 to the question "Why didn't I have to log in to my wiki the last time I visited it?" in PBwiki:

If you are using Firefox, it is possible to set your cookies to be deleted when the browser is closed. To do this, click on 'Tools' on the menu bar, select 'Options', click on the 'Privacy' tab. In the cookies section, of that tab, there's a drop down labled 'Keep until'. If you change that to 'I close Firefox' and press OK, your cookies will be cleared when the browser closes.

Mike replied on January 30, 2008 07:59 to the question "Is it possible to hide the "files" page on an upgraded wiki." in PBwiki:

At the moment, there's no way to hide files like you can hide pages, but it sounds like a feature worth consider for future releases.

One possible workaround would be to create a second wiki that stored files you want to keep hidden, and only the people with access to that wiki could see the files. If everyone has a PBwiki account, it should work pretty seamlessly.