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New blog post: Back from holidays - new challenges on the horizon bit.ly/9eRpf0
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I earned the Check-in Rookie sticker on @GetGlue! bit.ly/dbpWkZ
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Why is it that when I am on my holiday Wikidot servers crash? It is kind of a rule. Bad karma, shame on the unkind hardware.
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I earned the Lone Wolf sticker on @GetGlue! bit.ly/aLOBKx
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I love the cloud. "Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL". Yeah. I'd better backup my data now!
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Wikidot Gadgets
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Honestly I do not care that much about widgets, gadgets, being eye-candy… But sometimes we find cool things that we can put on our wikis and they can give some little joy.
Tags: fun gadgets useless wikidot
Wikidot on Cloud - part 2
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So as you have probably already read on my previous blog post, we are thinking about re-designing the Wikidot infrastructure to make it more failure-proof, elastic and more efficient. One of the concepts have is to use one of the "cloud solutions", e.g. Amazon AWS (i.e. EC2 + S3).
Tags: aws cloud testtag wikidot
Wikidot on Cloud
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Everytime we have an emergency situation at Wikidot (as yesterday with our webserver) we try to stop and think how well protected we are from different kind of hardware and software failures, network problems and even larger disasters (like our datacenter being destroyed). Also yesterday we stepped down from our daily tasks and looked at the situation.
Tags: cloud virtualization wikidot
Working on email notifications
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As we hinted in several places, including the discussion at Pro tracker, we are currently working on email notifications, so that you can follow (watch) activity at Wikidot by receiving emails directly into your Inbox.
The feature is really great (we have it enabled for a few testing accounts) and allows you to be instantly notified about page edits, forum discussions, page comments etc. for pages, categories or whole sites.
Tags: activity email notifications rss wikidot
Wikidot Not Available
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Today in the very morning we had a small problem with one of our Wikidot servers, which manifested in "service unavailable" message between 2 AM and 5 AM UTC. The problem was easy to fix, but unfortunately because it was the middle of the night for us, we could not respond quickly enough and SMSes from our monitoring systems did not wake us up.
Tags: outage wikidot
More pages than Wikipedia
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Yesterday I noticed a significant milestone of Wikidot.com compared to Wikipedia.org:
Wikidot has more pages than the english version of Wikipedia!
Tags: wikidot wikipedia
Pro accounts and a few ideas
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I was too busy and then too tired to write a post yesterday — but yes, we did manage to introduce Pro accounts at Wikidot.com yesterday. And even more — have already had a few sales. Also we have received very positive feedback from our Users, Friends and Customers.
Tags: ideas pro wikidot
Pro accounts tomorrow - will shave my beard
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Tomorrow is the big day for Wikidot.com and our Team — we will officially make Pro accounts available to our users.
So far Wikidot has been free and our revenue came mostly from online advertising. But obviously there are a few problems associated with the model of "provide free service, monetize the traffic":
Tags: free pro wikidot
Use the new Wikidot front theme on your Wiki in 5 easy steps
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Yesterday our team introduced a new design for our front page at Wikidot.com. We are getting many positive feedback about it. Thanks!
Many people were also asking us if it is possible to use the new theme on their own pages. Well, we are going to make a regular theme based on the new design, but if you are impatient and want to live on the bleeding-edge (like me) here is how I did it. No CSS knowledge is required and the result is instantaneous with just a few steps to complete.
The general idea is to create a new custom theme for Wiki and in the CSS definition import the CSS file from the front-page design. You will also need to add a few modifications, just copy&paste.
Tags: design howto tip wikidot
Moving static content to CloudFront
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For the last couple of weeks we are thinking of ways to make Wikidot.com faster, more responsive and more scalable. Personally I am fascinated with Amazon's web services, particularly :
- EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) — virtual servers on demand
- and S3 (Simple Storage Service) — storage space on demand
I can see those services as a natural environment for future Wikidot hosting, but this is not exactly what I wanted to write about.
Today Amazon has announced another service, CloudFront — a damn easy to use Content Delivery Network.
Tags: amazon aws cdn cf cloudfront wikidot
New Wikidot Theme
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Wikidot insider sneak preview: Wikidot awaits a major graphical redesign. What we are currently working on is a totally new front page for www.wikidot.com — cleaner, more organized, more friendly… Just better.
Lukasz has been working on it for a while, but this picture was taken when he just started 2 weeks ago, this is why he is smiling — he looks much worse now after 24th iteration of the theme and generating another set of buttons ;-)
Tags: design insider wikidot
Is this O.K. to attach ads to user-generated content?
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It's about free web services that earn money from ads placed on user-generated content pages. This is exactly how Wikidot.com could earn money and how Wordpress.com and thousands of others are generating their revenue. Some people have nothing against it, some would never use a service with such ads.
Tags: ads marketing monetization wikidot
Barcamp.pl in Poznań - impressions
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As many of you already know, Wikidot (the company) is based in Poland, Torun. And I really like going to various meetings, conferences and workshops organized locally. In fact, there are plenty of meetings related to "Web 2.0" and a lot has changed in the last 2 years here in Poland in the local Internet.
Anyway, on Saturday we decided to visit Barcamp.pl meeting in Poznań. Short summary? It was awesome. Clearly confirmed that the state of Internet in Poland more or less follows global trends.
Tags: barcamp barcamp.pl meetings poland web2.0 wikidot
