The wheels of progress at Wikidot.com have begun to turn again — regarding everything from correcting simple spelling and grammar errors to fixing bugs. We're actively involved with the community to identify what needs to be fixed and brainstorm new features.

A Google Group has been set up as a temporary dev-list where we can talk about ways to improve Wikidot, how to fix bugs, and other such things.

Everyone is welcome to join. You can read the posts with your web browser or have them subscribed on your mailbox. This is not only a way to talk to us at Wikidot — but also a research project before implementing a new Wikidot feature — a mailing list.

Many bugs and other errors were fixed at Wikidot today. We've corrected many spelling mistakes suggested by our community. We've fixed a few configuration problems, especially the one that didn't allow you to upload files bigger than 8MB.

Sadly, we had to disable the workaround being used to IFRAME HTML and JavaScript documents into Wikidot pages. This was a security hole.

We understand how important it is to IFRAME HTML documents into your Wikidot pages. Therefore, we are now researching a way for this to work in a safe way for everyone.

There are still more bugs to fix, we're working on them! If you know of any, please report them on our Community Forum or our new Dev List.

We are very pleased to see Wikidot wikis used in many different scenarios and cases. And creativity of our users still surprise us.

The thing however that really is pleasing is the usage of private wikis — did you know that over 40% of all our wikis are private? And that about 30% of the users' activity is happening in non-public areas? Unfortunately we cannot have a "featured private wiki" (simply because they are not public) but certainly some of them would deserve attention.

So, what do people use private wikis for? Some of them are personal workspaces created to "keep things in one place", but most of them have been created for small workgroups, also business users, to help communication and organizing workspace and workflow. Just to mention a few areas of usage: software development, b2c communication, knowledge bases, project management etc. And it looks like Wikidot fits (almost) perfectly for the job. Although Wikidot wikis are free, many people use it for mission-critical tasks. Thanks for trusting us!

Also a very large userbase in the private realm comes from universities where wikis are used to support classes, student project and scientific work.

Private wikis (and the whole Wikidot too) is getting more and more popular and recently we have been getting a lot of requests for raising the limits of users in private wikis (each private wiki was limited to 50 users only). We usually do it without problems, but the amount of requests made the waiting queue a bit long. Today we have decided to remove the limit for all the wikis!

Good luck and have a nice wiki,
The Wikidot Team

BTW: Needless to mention, private wikis at Wikidot are still free!

The Wikidot Team is happy to announce the open-source release of the Wikidot software. We are opening both the Version 1 codebase that currently powers Wikidot.com and the new development code for Wikidot 2, our next generation wiki platform, both under GNU Affero General Public License version 3.

What this basically means is that you can grab the software, install this and have your very own Wikidot! Would it not be great to have such a wiki farm at your work, school or university? We hope so and we encourage every wiki- enthusiast to consider this.

Join us at the (redesigned) Wikidot.org site and find more information about the software, downloads and resources.

See also the press release.

Good luck!
The Wikidot Team