Good luck with the usage!

For a "company" this is a good collaboration tool!

You need no application, no software, no internal network with shared point or shared drives.. only a browser.

And no one else the allowed members can have a look… not even search machines like google.. :)

My personal tip: try the "print" funktion!

Creating a complex wiki software is not a job one can do overnight and obviously it takes people, time and a lot of effort to make a decent, open and quality software that combines a lot of different technologies. Wikidot 1. is a kind of "hack" that combines such technologies but (since it was created in very limited time) does not prove itself as a web platform that we would like Wikidot to become.

Unfortunately this came with the cost of Wikidot 1 and the online service too. Actually we are spending quite a lot of time on it, securing the growth and keeping the service available practically without any outage (since we have moved to the new datacenter in December), making secure backups etc. Right now we are looking forward to hiring someone (developer/community manager) who would actually run the online service and coordinate things so that we could split responsibilities in a more "healthy" way. So far we have not been successful in finding such people locally in Torun but we intensively keep trying. We also had some problems with the support email (and our other emails) handling, which I agree should never ever happen.

Since the 2.0 is doing fine at the moment and most likely we will introduce a preview by the end of May, we will try to balance our effort between 2.0 and 1.0 better.

Thanks!

Michal and The Team

And yes, I think wikidot also needs a better bug reporting/archiving system. Now that it's free software, it could use one of those free hosting offers reserved to free softwares (like Jira which is good). Or you could (ab)use the wiki itself as a bug database in the way MoinMoin does. Both solutions are much better than a forum where things are posted and go forgotten forever.

I would still like to say that the lack or attention given to bug reports (and my unanswered support email for fixing a completely broken (database error) admin category on my site) is unacceptable. At least an automated "we are busy, it might take a month" message would be nice.

I'm basically thinking of migrating my wiki out of wikidot not because I'm dissatisfacted (on the contrary, I really love wikidot), but because a project without developers paying attention to the community is a dead project. In fact, in several months that I'm using wikidot v1 basically nothing noticable happened in its development (if not those bugfixes about multiple domains).

What we also think about is a way of writing extensions that do not necessarily need to be installed server-side. We have spent some time working with OpenSocial framework (but honestly the whole OpenSocial-thing is sooooo beta that we decided to postpone it until later) and Facebook's FBML and it gave us a lot of inspiration on how to do it. Probably one could create extensions e.g. for managing list of contacts or for managing members of a wiki.

Good luck!

Michal

One of factors why my folks reluctantly thought about making knowledge bases on wiki.

Limits, also effected in creating separate private wikis only from limits reason.

Wikidot went opensource, Limits goes down
Shortly speaking: better and better :D

I made the experience, it is a little hard to manage a members list greater than 50…. :)

But because I do not know how much members some of my sites will get:

thanks again for this decision, it prevents me from making some copies of some sites only for this reason!

BTW: if the permissions are making possible to manage user-groups between read - not read, (means "private status" for single pages/categories) than the private status for a complete site is not longer neccessary.

Keep up the fantastic work.

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!