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Added Week of Dec 17-23, 2006

 

• Added a 30 Boxes calendar plugin for the new editor (very cool)
• Added a Slide plugin for the new editor (also very cool)
• Changed the new editor to make selected text default for new page link - highly requested feature :)
• Fixed heading sizes and layout on the new editor
• Fixed a bug where wiki style rendering halted with certain creative markup sequences
• Fixed a bug which put too much whitespace below table of contents
• Fixed the style menu in the new editor (works more like one would expect)
• Fixed a bug which made plugins which had been drag-and-dropped not render completely
• Changed the plugin wizard to be better-looking
• Fixed a bug where edits made by someone who didn't leave their name didn't show up well on the changes page
• Fixed a bug where old revisions of pages with mixed dashes and spaces in their names were getting borked
• Added more smarts to the plugin wizard when the plugin being previewed doesn't fit in the standard plugin dialog
• Fixed a bug which made image attachments with uppercase extensions ineligible for inlining in the new editor
• Changed the HTML and Google Gadgets plugins to be better-behaved
• Changed our approach to table styling so table background/foreground are editable in the new editor
• Added lots of behind-the-scenes code so PBwiki will be able to handle a brazillian more wikis

 

Added Week of Dec 2-Dec 9, 2006

 

• Preview release of the new editor for new wikis (not selected by default)
• 'Log in' link on pbwiki.com to help users remember their wiki names
• Improved link to tags page

 

Added Week of November 26-Dec 2, 2006

 

• Gently nudge toward page-urls-with-dashes instead of using%20spaces%20by%20default
• Refinements to the Rich Text editor demo
• Added a setting to leave notifications off by default
• Added an interface for disabling wiki notifications for particular recipients

 

Added Week of November 19-25, 2006

 

• Preview of the upcoming Rich Text editor
• Minor tweaks to the API (file upload plumbing)

 

Added Week of September 10-16, 2006

 

• Initial API support deployed.
• Several fixes to make logging in & out more smooth.
• Fixed bug when logging in to edit a page with a single-quote in the name.

 

Added Week of August 20-26, 2006

 

• Adds automated á la carte upgrades - users with already-premium wikis can add additional features one-at-a-time at _your_wiki_.pbwiki.com/upgrade.php
• Adds a new front page (pbwiki.com) design with revised accessory pages from that front page.
• Fixes a preview rendering glitch
• Fixes login / forgot password rendering with some browsers
• Fixes several typos
• Fixes IE6 rendering glitch on PBwiki Identities
• Tightened layout for "page information" in column 1 of the footer
• Redone layout for newly created wikis
• Fixes some phrasing in the 48-hour followup email

 

Added Week of July 16 - 22, 2006

 

• Added experimental exporting to PDF for individual pages, and substantially enhanced the PDF output engine (tables, nested lists, breakout boxes)
• Added an experimental slideshow output to collations (collations will be revamped in the coming weeks, including enhanced ways of reordering and renaming collated pages)

 

 

Added Week of July 9 - 15, 2006

 

• Added experimental PDF export
• Refinement of handling of <pre> blocks

 

Added Week of July 2 - 8, 2006

 

• Added 'rename' and 'delete' buttons to general page views
• Minor layout tweaks
• Enhanced and refined the code which calculates differences between revisions

 

Added Week of June 25 - July 1, 2006

 

• Redesigned uploaded files view, sort by name/size/date/extension plus more views which don't show image thumbnails.

 

Added Week of June 11 - 17, 2006

 

• Fixed an issue which caused some file attachments and images to try to promote themselves to https unnecessarily.

 

Added Week of June 4 - 10, 2006

 

• Add additional emails to your PBwiki Identity
• A few bug fixes for PBwiki Identities
• Change notification emails will include the editor's profile image where applicable
• Fixes for CamelCase within bracket links
• Refinement of login button on IE
• Adds some bits to the page DOM in anticipation of exciting upcoming features
• Corrects an edge case in Skype online status parsing
• Changed some mechanisms for free wikis serving files outside the wiki (due to some Russian spammers)
• Added an option to send change notifications to yourself (or whomever else made the edit) Settings->Notifications
• For power users: powertools.php

 

Added Week of May 21 - 27, 2006

 

• PBwiki Identities (beta)
• Many small improvements & bits of polish

 

Added Week of May 14 - 20, 2006

 

• Autolink Skype IDs - dweekly

 

Added Week of May 7 - May 13, 2006

 

• Fixed autolinks for .biz URLs.

 

Added Week of April 30 - May 6, 2006

 

• Major layout refinements - footer columns on wiki pages
• Redesigned login page, with clearer division of required vs. optional info
• Fixes a bug with nesting lists beyond 3 levels
• Fixes for rss feeds (uploaded file links are correct)
• Refinements of Wikilets
• Adds a 'promote your wiki' tool with several ways of sharing around the web
• Lots of smaller behind-the-scenes fixes and improvements
• Collations added
• WikiStyle (Tiếng Việt) (Vietnamese) completed

 

Added Week of April 23 - April 29, 2006

 

• Refined table rendering
• Fixed extra text on the end of notification emails when notifications were sent to many recipients
• Wiki creators can now delete wikis without intervention from PBwiki support

 

Added Week of April 16 - April 22, 2006

 

• Diffs are now 100x faster and much higher quality. This will hugely speed up how long it takes you to save complex wiki pages and will make RSS / Changes much more helpful.
• Fixed extra 'current version' in flashback
• Fixed change color highlighting in emails (fixes gmail, others)
• Let people log in without dropping them into the middle of an edit.
• Added WikiStyle (Türkçe)

 

Added Week of April 9 - April 15, 2006

 

• New feature: Email notification -- check out 'notification settings' in the page footer
• Redesigned file upload page
• Fixed search results when filename contains a colon ':'
• Improved handling of login - takes you straight to edit mode
• Improved handling of undefined links for guests (not yet logged in)
• Improved display of differences between revisions - adds strikeout for deletion

 

Added Week of April 2 - April 8, 2006

 

• Improved Search performance, better handling of non-ascii characters
• Big behind-the scenes changes for overall system performance
• Page locking
• UI tweaks & tune-ups

 

Added Week of March 26 - April 1, 2006

 

• New Premium feature: Hide 'New Page' templates (see Settings)
• Fixed renaming files with double-quotes in the old or new name
• Much improved diffs!
• Much faster loading of uploaded images/thumbnails

 

Added Week of March 19 - March 25, 2006

 

• New feature: Uploaded files which are the same name as an existing file also show an option to just overwrite the original.
• New feature: Templates on the 'New Page' tool. Type in a name and select the layout you want. (Great work, Jim the Intern!)
• New compatibility: Stylesheets now support MSIE 7 β2
• New feature: Uploaded file gets a new name if that filename already exists, e.g. Duplicate-1.jpg (I love this feature! -Nathan)
• New feature: File renaming
• New packages for upgrading your wiki - Silver/Gold/Platinum. Click 'Go Premium' on your wiki for details. If you upgraded your wiki before this morning, you're an Early Adopter, we love you, and you get all the cool Platinum features at the original rate. If you haven't yet upgraded, do so today!
• Substantial behind-the-scenes updates to enable Silver/Gold/Platinum features as well as more useful and exciting stuff to come.
• PBwiki now requires you to enter the admin email address before it'll send a 'forgot my password' email (no more annoying 'some kid clicking buttons' emails)
• New Premium feature: Hideable pages for public wikis (guests can see that there's a page but can't read it)
• Fixed typos in several policy pages
• Fixed a problem deleting pages whose names contained question marks
• Fixed: Premium stats didn't properly associate data from custom domain names with the owning wiki.
• Fixed a problem when searching as a guest

 

Added Week of March 12 - March 18, 2006

 

• Fixes edge-case problems with page layout on Internet Explorer
• Reinstates save/preview/cancel buttons at the top of the page.
• Fixes a javascript bug on some browsers when hiding the editing hints panel.
• Adds the ability to set a non-US format for last-changed dates.
• Fixes a few bugs in our editing buttons when working with non-CamelCase page names
• New Premium feature: When adding a custom domain, PBwiki checks the domain to make sure it points to the right place (our servers)
• New layout for Settings page
• Expanded share feature
• New feature - image thumbnails in File Upload
• New layout for File Upload page
• Substantial backend changes which will make for some great upcoming features
• Hungarian translation of WikiStyle (Magyar)

 

Added Week of March 5 - March 11, 2006

 

• New Premium feature: Add a custom domain to your wiki (very cool)
• New Premium feature: View statistics about your wiki (admins and mods only)
• Enhanced edit page layout and interface
• Improved behavior on discussions page
• Improved page title placement
• Enhanced downloads of SVG image files
• Fixes jumping scrollbar when applying format buttons to long documents

 

Added Week of February 26 - March 4, 2006

 

• Added 'center' to the editing toolbar
• Improved the 'table' and 'list' toolbar buttons
• Fixes a bug where author attribution in the page footer could lag by a minute after edits
• Improves diffs for wikis where edits are done on a mix of pc/mac/linux computers
• Improves page-edit locking in certain edge cases
• Search improved, particularly with searches including the '+' and '*' characters
• Guess how many wikis our users have created. No prize. One hint: lots!
• Don't forget Poland! Thanks to Tomasz Primke for translating WikiStyle (Polski)

 

Added Week of February 19 - February 25, 2006

 

• Added a WikiStyle toolbar for editing - you get buttons for common formatting and recent pages, files, and image (still experimental, but lots of fun!)
• Added a New Page button which should make that process simpler.
• Fixes a couple of rendering bugs (hr at the beginning of pages, e.g.)
• Adds accesskeys (alt-1..alt-5+alt-u) for the upload page
• Fixes a few bugs with MSIE not dealing well with single-quotes in page names

 

Added Week of February 12 - February 18, 2006

 

• Premium feature: Admins and moderators can lock particular pages ( Click on Edit this page, there's a checkbox. )
• Fixes a bug which showed stale comment count after a moderator deleted a comment.
• Premium feature: Admins can hide changes from readers (requires advanced permissions to be on and still shows changes to contributors, moderators, and admins)
• Better handling of uploads which fail due to connection interruption.
• Fixes a bug which could show stale page edit info for some pages.
• Wiki timezone options in 'Settings' for every timezone listed in Wikipedia, even the weird ones.
• Page render time improvements, particularly with a complex SideBar.

 

Added Week of February 5 - February 11, 2006

 

• Quota bonus indication on file upload page (like for our PostOnBlog program)
• Moderators and Admins can delete discussion posts (only applies to premium)
• File upload progress now shown with so-hot-right-now Ajax instead of a popup
• File upload progress will warn if your upload seems to have stalled
• Improvements to aspects of the way internal page links are styled
• Better styling of the <random> tag
• Mildly improved page rendering performance
• Improved XHTML compliance
• For files, modified/uploaded time is available by hovering over the file url
• Prettier PBwiki site icons
• Premium users can upload their own 'favicon.ico' file
• Time zones are now in one-hour increments (sorry, Newfoundland, Suriname, Iran, India, Sri Lanka, and Central Australia)
• Clearer wording on some site text and help files
• Search includes page name matches in addition to page content
• Added an 'Update' button at the top of preview-your-changes view

 

Added Week of January 29 - February 4, 2006

 

• Substantial performance boost for fetching files, your images and files should load more quickly.
• Progress bar during uploads. This is a little tricky, please advise if it's not working for you. (popup blockers may impede this)
• Added language selection for Finnish.
• Language selections on admin page are now in native script.
• Fixed some search issues.
• Added accelerator keys (Alt-E to edit, then Alt-S to save, Alt-C to cancel, Alt-P to preview!) (thanks, Tantek!)
• Find the last wiki you edited on pbwiki.com's front page!
• Fixed a problem where links to new pages were not getting updated as blue (completed) immediately.
• Fixed an issue with large uploads.
• Fixed quota support.

 

Added Week of January 22-28, 2006

 

• Reworked the help system with a quick summary of most commonly encountered problems.
• Fixed a wiki code problem where [http://someurl/|pagename] couldn't have any spaces.
• Added Portugese as a language option.
• Added a Terms of Service page
• Instant Messaging urls work better - use 'aim' and 'ym' as the schema part, for example [aim:youraimhandle|AIM me] ym:youryahoohandle (Yahoo even has an icon indicating your status)
• Fixes to the search function, with more to come.

 

Added Week of January 15-21, 2006

 

• Major back-end changes, more or less invisible to users
• Settings page reorganized to put more useful/interesting features at the top

 

Added Week of December 25-31, 2005

 

• More consistent UI - menu bar stays with you on all pages now.
• Warning if you try to surf away from an edit.
• Recent Changes is much, much faster and shows you diffs.
• File additions, deletions, and comments are now included in your RSS/Atom feeds.
• Upgrading to advanced permissions is less confusing now.
• Diffs work better.
• Comments are prettier when no email and/or name is given.
• Premium users who have customized their wiki CSS now see that customization more uniformly applied (e.g, on login screens)
• The list of changes made to a page are now most-recent-at-top, like everything else.

 

Added Week of December 18-24, 2005:

 

• Premium upgrades for 1 year can be paid for without signing up for a PayPal account.

 

Added Week of December 11-17, 2005:

• Fixed diffs (oops)
• Simplified interface by removing cruft.
• Added better language support, including primitive RTL support for Arabic and Hebrew and language-tagging of feeds and pages.
• Added "flashbacks" to let you easily browse older versions of a page.
• Added end-to-end PayPal automation (yay!). Your wiki premium upgrade take effect about 10 seconds after you hit 'buy' on PayPal. It's a good thing.
• Added a 'Description' for your wiki that's shown on the login page. See 'Settings' to change.
• Added a 'Title' for you wiki that's shown at the top of every page. Now 'mywiki' can now be '~=My Wiki=~'. Again, configure in 'Settings'.
• The <random> tag links to a random page in your wiki. Great for SideBars!

 

 

Added Week of December 4-10, 2005:

• Discussions and Advanced Permissions are now available for all premium wikis
• RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds with MUCH more useful info, including diffs, who changed what, etc.
• Added "private" view into feeds which includes email and IP address of person changing.
• Added variable robots.txt to keep snooping bots out more absolutely.
• Added server-side diffs - much faster and more accessible now.
• Early-access rollout of per-page 'forum-like' discussion for select premium wikis
• Early-access rollout of multi-level access control Advanced Permissions for select premium wikis
• Fixed non-ASCII "view wiki source" pages and removed ads & sidebar
• Fixed misplaced SideBar on Internet Explorer for real this time
• Fixed misplaced SideBar on Minimalist theme on Internet Explorer
• Added parentheses ( ) as valid url chars
• Refined ad coloring
• Short skyscraper ad for medium-size pages (was a tall one, looked dumb)

 

Added Week of November 27 - December 3, 2005:

• Behind-the scenes changes for better uptime and scalability.
• Ads are now blended in with the color scheme of your wiki.
• Sidebar ads are a little less clunky.
• Added preliminary diff support!! (now you can see what's changed!)
• Added an external tour for new PBwiki users.

 

Added Week of November 20-26, 2005:

• Retweaked ad placement (got rid of middle-of-the-page ads and the footer)
• Added an option to make a "lean" .ZIP backup (one that includes only the current revisions)
• Added wiki name and date to the .ZIP backup filename
• Added <views> for displaying the view count for each page
• Added plumbing behind the scenes for instant server backups
• Tweaked ad placement to better accommodate different content layouts, particularly long pages.
• Added option to show/hide tips on the "Settings" page
• Fixed timezones
• Updated FAQ and picture FAQ
• New FrontPage on new wikis
• Fixed italics bug preventing italicizing multiple paragraphs easily
• Fixed <verbatim> font-size
• Fixed "breakout" white box style in the SideBar
• Made modifying the look of your wiki easier (for premium users) - only differences from the skin need now be included in the wiki.css file
• Prettier error messages

 

Added Week of November 6-12, 2005:

• Fixed "All Pages" typo
• Fixed WikiStyle links above and below edit box
• A bit more helpful javascript on logins
• Fixed a problem where users would get an error instead of a page
• New welcome page and email when starting a wiki

 

Added Week of October 30 - November 5, 2005:

• Added HTTPS support for Premium users and for everybody's logins.
• Updated file upload limits to 10MB for free users and 1000MB for Premium!
• Total number of revisions displayed (via the "changed..." link at the bottom)
• RecentChanges improvements
• WikiStyle links now point to yummy's WikiStyle if no user WikiStyle page exists
• Preview entities are displayed properly

 

Added Week of October 23-29, 2005:

• Fixed page locking bug
• Fixed delete page problem
• Fixed table rendering in Internet Explorer
• Added <top> links to take visitors to the top of a page (you can use either <top> or <top your link description>)
• Added support for level 4-6 headers
• Added Preview mode
• Improved search
• Fixed button text
• Added .JPE as a valid picture extension
• Show editor's information only to logged-in users
• Various security fixes

 

Added Week of October 16-22, 2005:

• Fixed issue with lack of confirmation on page deletion if javascript was turned off
• Fixed issue with canceling an edit on a nonexisting page
• AllPages now notifies you that a page has been deleted
• Fixed issue where deleting pages with odd characters in their names didn't delete their backups
• Added aim and ymsgr plain and pretty urls ; )
• Added three more levels of headers (!!!! - !!!!!!)
• 'view wiki source' and other links now toggle
• Bracketed email links with subjects fixed
• Non-English (Latin character set) email subjects!!
• Fixed search function and added case-sensitivity
• Much easier access to backups and now is easy to revert to earlier versions (just see top of a backup page!)
• System finally tracks who made what edits!

 

 

Added Week of October 9-15, 2005:

• Due to an IE bug, wiki names can no longer have underscores in them.
• Numbers are now permitted in wiki names.
• Fixed issue with some rare email address links.
• Fixed issue where textbox was first thing on page.
• Fixed issue where textbox callouts overlapped sidebar.
• Fixed issue where when text was in tables it would escape single quotes
• Added pretty URLs (http://foo.pbwiki.com/MyPage instead of http://foo.pbwiki.com/index.php?wiki=MyPage)
• Added easy strikethrough syntax (just put -strikethrough-)
• Re-fixed issue where you couldn't view backup pages.
• Fixed over-aggressive unescaping in table cells
• Fixed longstanding issue with incorrect dates / times in RecentChanges
• Fixed issue with table of contents clearing too much

 

 

Added Week of October 2-8, 2005:

• Fixed "long sidebar" render bug
• Fixed broken right-to-left support
• Fixed odd IE indent at top of page
• Fixed ZIP file backup for large wikis
• Fixed no-vertical-whitespace-at-end-of-first-paragraph bug
• Fixed wierd spacing issues with bullet lists
• Added "tip of the day"
• Cleaned up menu interface
• Added print CSS to make printing prettier
• Fixed undefined links not being specially highlighted
• Downloaded Word/Excel/PowerPoint files now pop up application properly
• Premium wiki users not bugged about making wikis premium with tab
• Added many new filetypes for proper downloading (pdf, bmp, xls, doc, etc...)
• Added rudimentary wiki table syntax
• Filenames in the upload area are now sorted

 

Added Week of September 26 - October 1, 2005:

 

• Launched new designs & CSS selector
• Fixed email URL bug
• Fixed dozens of other, small bugs

 

Added Week of September 11-17, 2005:

 

• Fixed rendering bug if bullet point was first thing on wiki page
• Fixed rendering bug for HTML tables (excess whitespace above table)

 

Added Week of September 4-10, 2005:

 

• Server move for increased speed and scalability!
• Fixed bugs involving having apostrophes in filenames.
• Added automagic Table-Of-Contents support with <toc>
• Referer form now auto-fills user's name & email
• Fixed a bug where titles with tabs in them would produce bogus HTML

 

Added Week of August 1-6, 2005:

 

• More sane session expiration times!
• Use cookies to cache name & email address across pbwiki & autofill login
• Fixed wiki source display

 

Added Week of July 17-23, 2005:

 

• HTML escapes deliberately in document are now properly preserved.
• Added <raw> support, as requested.
• Fixed random bolding issues.
• Fixed backslash issues in <verbatim> sections
• Links to pages not yet defined are now clearly marked
• Fixed issue where after editing pages with a single quote, you'd get returned to an unknown page.
• Fixed issue where a blockquote couldn't be the last thing on a page.
• Added "cancel" option to page edit screen. (cancels edit and removes lockfile)
• You can now finally delete pages - go to AllPages

 

Added Week of July 11-16, 2005:

 

• Page locking deployed! You can now have multiple people editing a wiki without worrying if they're going to step on each others' toes.
• Fixed page locking issues that let you too easily shoot yourself in the foot even with a single editor.
• Added Privacy Policy to make it clear that you own your own content.
• Fixed issue with "LogOut" not always showing up.
• Added "wiki source" option to bottom of pages to be able to view wiki source without actually editing.
• Improved FindPage output quality

 

Added Week of July 3-10, 2005:

 

• New authentication system (fixes Safari issues, enables upcoming cool features)
• Refer-A-Friend system
• fixed POST behavior
• File uploading support finally added - 1MB for free users, 100MB for Premium!
• Added Premium customization - just upload a new wiki.css!

 

Added Week of June 26- July 2, 2005:

 

• Textareas are now bigger for easier editing
• URLs can now include $ (dollar-sign).
• Fixed bug where ~DontWikiLink mechanism didn't work in titles.
• Fixed bug where page names could not include apostrophe marks.
• Added Premium program.

 

Added Week of June 19-25, 2005:

 

• Fixed Japanese (& non-roman) header bugs!
• Fixed bug first header on the page that wouldn't render correctly
• Raw HTML support (now do tables, fixed-width text, font changes, and more)
• Labelled email links, email-with-subject linking
• Cleaned up excess space after lists and headers
• Links can now include anchors: FrontPage
• Wiki pages can now have non-Roman names (bracketing syntax required!) - hello Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, and more!
• Wiki links in headers now work properly again
• Added <verbatim> tag.
• Cleaned up <pre> blocks.
• manually escaped tag brackets now survive a round trip.
• horizontal rules are now more consistently displayed between IE & Firefox
• RSS link now in footer

 

Added Week of June 12-18, 2005:

 

 

• timezone support for RecentChanges & default wikiwide settings
• fixed bracketed wiki links so you can now describe them with This is the sandbox!
• added tilde ~ prefix to WikiWords to make them non-linking.
• added modification time to page footers
• RSS feeds of RecentChanges!
• Added FrontPage link to headers
• Added SideBar support to wikis (just make a page called SideBar)
• Added automatic anchor tagging for headers
• Make all header sizes more reasonable/legible
• Improved search results page

 

Added Week of June 5-11, 2005:

 

• the ability to make your pbwiki publicly accessible
• nested lists & numbered lists
• a much improved search
• the recent changes pages actually looks sane now
• allowing the wiki's creator to change the wiki password
• auto-linking email addresses
• the ability to reset your password if you've forgotten it
• a bracket syntax to link to new WikiPages
• All wiki pages (not just pages that are WikiWords) can now be searched and found in AllPages
• .ZIP file backups which you can grab off your wiki now
• a FAQ conviently accessible with a button at the top of the page!

 

 

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