Michal, for a sample page that shows the problem visit http://sandbox.wikidot.com/live:page

… are nowhere documented and we found nothing about them when googling for some answers. I hope Gabrys will describe them in more detail on his blog because they are really bizarre and in our opinion irrational.

After time of being mentally completely destroyed by Internet Explorer problems, now I describe some of plenty of them we came across on my blog.

Thanks again for the suggestion!!!
Michal

This is a link to a video explaining the PBWiki system.

delafielddelafield 22 Aug 2008, 01:31 WIT had written:

"I fixed my problem by enabling third party cookies. I would rather not have to do that, and would rather not have all my users either (1) enable 3d party cookies, or (2) think the site is broken like I did."

GabrysGabrys 22 Aug 2008, 04:32 WIT had replied:

"enabling third party cookies definitely should NOT be needed. Please tell us what browser do your users use and what's the affected wiki."

I can confirm that withGNU/Linux OS and with Firefox 3.0.1 I can login www.wikidot.com but not to http://rdfrs.wikidot.com/ without enabling 3rd party cookies or if to put it more objectively, I couldn't connect to that particular Wiki with 3rd party cookies disabled but now can connect with 3rdparty cookies enabled.

I have something to do with that particular Wiki and I enabled 3rd parties for now but in fact its not something acceptable for me. If this not something related with www.wikidot.com but with that particular Wiki located under wikidot.com please let me know how they could achieve to do so, in order to warn them to fix/undo it. If its a wikidot.com policy, I don't know what else I can say.

Regards.

Deniz

Wikidot would be nothing without The Users and The Community. We appreciate every part of the co-operation, i.e. community-based HOWTOs and FAQ, partnership in promoting Wikidot etc.

Today we would like to present a beautiful example of users' engagement in Wikidot's life — Wikidot Video Tutorial. One of our users: samoore created couple of videos in which he describes how to start work with Wikidot step-by-step. This is a very useful guide especially for those who have just created an account and/or new wiki site.

… is there any chance, Wikidot Team, that each wiki's "system text" (UI, buttons) is in some language other than english or polish, any time soon?

There are plenty of offers from wikidot community to do the translation, if some mechanism becomes available…

I emailed them and that is what they said, and they won't reverse the policy…

Wikidot For Education has almost the same functionalities as the Pro Account (to be introduced soon), but it's free. Wikidot For Education is available only for teachers/lecturers from schools, colleges and universities.

I currently a student and my university is using the wiki for facilitating a course. Also as a user I'm very excited about what you guys have in store with this announcement. How is the special Edu account be different from the normal accounts and the 'Pro' ones?

Thanks and keep up the fine work!

—Long

Summer holiday is over and for some of you it is time to get back to school. This also means new tasks, new classes and new goals to achieve. You might wonder what Wikidot has to do with this? In fact, using Wikidot to support your classes is a great idea, and we will shortly tell you why.

We are also preparing a special offer for school, college and university teachers and lecturers. If you are a teacher or lecturer and decide to use Wikidot for your classes, let us know. If you need more functionality for the education purposes, we will be happy i.e. to increase the storage for your uploaded files, increase number of wikis you can create and help you organize your work.

More about Wikidot in Education can be found on a special page.

1. logging in into a wiki with a custom domain
2. authenticate to gain permissions to view uploaded files on private wikis.

We should put it in the FAQ or doc.

@Helmuti: Thanks, we were optimizing the CSS theme for www.wikidot.com and accidentally spoiled it a bit. Fixed indeed!

Probably my fault. Apologise if I've wasted anybody's time, and thanks very much for your dedicated support.

Josh

We could start working on such a tool later this week.

Michal

Still not working - I modified the login (in Safari) to be SSL only, cleared all related cookies (in FF), and unchecked the bind to IP option.

No cigar.

Josh

1. try to clear all cookies for wdfiles.com as well.
2. try to set your page to use SSL only
3. uncheck bind to IP logging option

if any of these helps please send us a note.

If you could provide us with more details, especially some debug information (i.e. which cookies are being sent etc.) from software like FireBug, it would help us a lot.

Michal

It logs in fine and works with Safari.

Josh
(Mac OSX 10.4)

Thanks for the follow up Gabrys.

My forum has two admins — myself and one other person. I can edit and save pages after logging in, but my friend (who is listed as Admin) cannot save changes. Is this a log-in bug of some sort? I've tried everything I can and am wondering if a cookie is set wrong.

We can easily access your wikis, either logged-in or not, Firefox or any other browser, with proxies between and without.

If your problem persists, we will deal with it on Monday.

enabling third party cookies definitely should NOT be needed. Please tell us what browser do your users use and what's the affected wiki.

Regards,
Ken

issues with remember me and bind my session can happen if your users use some kind of proxy and then we can't do anything with it. Some ISPs do proxies, that users don't know about. Despite of this fact we NEED to know what browsers your users use, maybe we'll manage to reproduce the situation.

The login box showing on wiki sites is gone. Now logging in is only possible with the secure (https) page listed in the news (https://www.wikidot.com/auth:login).

EDIT: I've sent you a private message with some questions, we'll try to identify and fix the problem.

Questions:
1. How do I make the join page work correctly? Do I have to edit the links for the page such that they point to the address above? Is the pop-up interface for logging in now disabled and gone forever?
2. Why are people who the system recognizes as logged in unable to access both a site where they are members and their "my account" pages without taking the steps listed above?

I've had to change this private site to public until I can address these issues. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Jonathon Brown
Lecturer, RMIT International University Vietnam
http://riuv-im.wikidot.com

Hope we have a little time of silence now to relax! :)

There are so much new features…I want to use on a more intensive way the "internal" html usage with the "code" tag..

Thanks again!

The old method of login (though it had bugs) encapsulated the login within the site (so you couldn't just click a link and lose the original site) giving the appearence that the login was from the site, which i think is better design.

I'm just posting things as i see them, hope it's helpful.

Ok here was my one bug that i found in IE6:
- I can't Login or create a new account using the [[module MembershipApply]] module. This is for both custom domain and wikidot (original) domain.

I can login using the login in the top right corner.
Everything works using FF3.

Thanks guys.

today we've upgraded the authenticating system on Wikidot. This enhances the security level and fixes some bugs that appeared when using Internet Explorer (and Safari) and wikis on custom domains (i.e. not in the .wikidot.com domain).

We have also decided to improve the log-in system — from now on there is one single and secure login URL used for authenticating: https://www.wikidot.com/auth:login. This, together with the SSL, dramatically improves security and is especially important for people logging into domains hosted by Wikidot but from outside of the wikidot.com domain.

We hope all bugs related to Internet Explorer, cookies and custom domains are now gone. In case of any please contact our Support Team either at the dev-list, moc.todikiw|troppus#liame troppus or on the community forums.

Regards,
Your Wikidot Team

If you still have any issues - let us know!

Same for me, no access through 3.0.1 and xp sp3

But its only a private site to store malware information so don't rush on my account, hope you got some weekend Michal :)