Dear Ken

I have a page called Periodic Table of Elements (doemyers@mac.com) for our 8th grade science class.  The left hand side controls (directory, changes, control, ....new page) are gone from the site.  What did I do to cause this and can it be fixed?

Thanks,

Doe Myers

Dear Ken,

First off, thank you for all that you do to make seedwiki wonderful.  I have been experiencing two problems: 1. I am unable to create new pages successfully after I click on ? and then click on Save Your Changes, I receive the response that there is no page. 2.  When I try to edit a page with new information, the page often does not update.  My link info indicates http://seedwiki.com/wiki/ap_european_wikipedia/ap_european_wikipedia?usermessage=Your%20edit%20was%20cancelled  Please help.  Thank you, Lisa

When I try to click on the "search" textbox at the top of the page, it automatically clicks the "seedwiki" link.  Therefore I cannot search.  This happens in Firefox, but not Konquerer. 1/24/08

Thanks for the heads up. The end of the "a" tag was in the wrong place. Fixed now. -- ken tyler 1/25/2008

seedwiki was down this morning for a couple of hours because of a problem stemming from an automatic update of the server's operating system by microsoft. We appologize for the problem and for the interruption of service
-- ken tyler  1/11/2008

I am having the same problem described by Odile - "After having made a change in the edit-window, I return to the normal mode and I see the changes I have made: they're all there on the screen. But when I return into the edit-mode immediatly after, I get an earlier version and NOT the up-to-date version. "  I have this problem using Internet Explorer.  When I use Mozilla Firefox I can't change the color of text, however I don't haved the problem maintaining my edits.  Help!
Arlis . . . http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/worship_committee/
arlis,
    should be fixed now. thanks for the report.
--ken tyler 1/8/08

 Why does SeedWiki not display properly in Safari? The page looks fine until you try to edit a page. Then the html shows and not the word processing bar. I am building a web page using iWeb, and the site previews in Safari. PB Wiki does not display in Safari either.
Melinda

Melinda, the open-source editor used in seedwiki depends on javascript... so the browser you use has to be standards compliant. I thought the latest version of safarai was... but perhaps not. The safe bet is to use firefox.

ken

Odile,

Thank you ever so much for your detailed report. There was a problem with Internet Explorer and editing the newer style wiki's. Thanks to your error report we were able to find and fix it.

-- ken tyler

I tried again and again ...(see bug report below: http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/hypertext)

now for example it is the first page; when you click onto th edit button, you get by no means the page as you see it on the screen .... after you'Ve just changed something on the pag ...  i'm really hoping for help ... perhaps I do something I shouldn't do, I've really no idea. Never had this problem with older wikis ...

Perhaps I should be more precise:

After having made a change in the edit-window, I return to the normal mode and I see the changes I have made: they're all there on the screen.
But when I return into the edit-mode immediatly after, I get an earlier version and NOT the up-to-date version. 
After half an hour or so eventually I get the page as it is or should be.

THANKS FOR an answer ... I love seedwiki nevertheless ;)

Odile

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I'have been having problems for a while now with the editing ... I think since the new design has come ..

I see the page all in the browser - as it should be - with alle the changes I've made.
But when I click the button to get into the edit mode, I'm getting an older version: not the one I see in the browser in the normal mode.

http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/hypertext

I'd be very happy if this could be fixed .... thank you so much.
Maybe It's my fault .. dont't know

Odile

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I can't edit my page. I Started a new page and deleted my original page. The edit option does not respond. Mrs. Green's Kindergarten Writers? lauraleegreen@gmail.com

 -- should be fixed now, we had a little problem with the ' in the page name, but the code can handle it now. -- ken tyler

I can't edit my page:  http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/fumi_esl115/fumi_esl115. 

WhenI click "edit" on my homepage, edit page never open.

Thank you,

Fixed now -- ken tyler

Page freeze:  http://www.heart-dixie.com/wiki/heartofdixierealestate/lease-to-own/rent-to-own. 

Thanks for taking a look at it.  I think the name is a bad syntax as well.

Jon

Jon,
Yes, you were right. It's bad syntax. Thanks for the report.

lease-to-own/rent-to-own should go to lease-to-own_rent-to-own

http://www.heart-dixie.com/wiki/heartofdixierealestate/lease-to-own_rent-to-own

Our code should make that conversion when a page is first created.

I've changed that wiki page URL manually in our database. I will find other wikis that may be experiencing the same problem and do the same for them.

And Kenneth and I will fix the underlying code that makes that conversion.

- Stephan

Rich, can you tell me which wiki this is in ? and can you give me an example of a page that where changes won't stick and, if possible, a sample of the text you're trying to add?

--ken tyler

Another problem is that I make changes and they don't always stick. It's maybe 50%.

Thanks,

Rich

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Hi guys,

Every time I try to upload files, I get  "loading page_files..."  and then it hangs with a "Done, but with errors on page" in my browser's status bar. Needless to say, the files are not getting uploaded.

Thanks,

Rich

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Hi,

I'd like to edit my main page, but it does not work. I think there is some problem. Could you fix it?

My page is  http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/chulyoungs_esl_115_wiki_page/chulyoungs_esl_115_wiki_page

 Chulyoung, I can't find a wiki with that name, but i do find one with the name chulyoung_esl115. The main page on that appears to edit ok. Are you still having a problem? If so, tell me more about what you mean by "does not work" -- ken tyler

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Hi,
The CSS for our two wikis is mostly reading correctly.
The exception is the background colors, which have been reading as white for the past few weeks.
The sites are here (http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/whole_terrain_resources_for_writers)
and here (http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/celebration_and_ceremony/).
I've also noticed recently that when I make a page edit, my user name mysteriously disappears until I log out and in again.
Any way to resolve these?
Thanks,
Nathaniel
Nathaniel,
looks like the editor munged you css files and saved them in display mode with line returns in them. I removed the <br/>'s and things seem to be back to normal. I also moved some kind of tracking script that was at the bottom of the css file to the "head" section of you _layout page. The editor seems to be working fine now, so I'm not sure what happened to cause the problem. -- ken tyler

Hi,  I can't seem to create a free account.  I just get a mostly blank page at: http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/seed_wiki/start_now?wikiPageId=799188 that has an error:

error in #session.info.wikiurlname#

Thanks,

Jeff

jeff,

Thanks for the heads up. fixed now. -- ken tyler

 HI.  My site at http://www.multismart.net is dns pointed at ns1 & ns2.seedwiki.com, but "404 server not found" is the error message.  http://Multismart.seedwiki.com works fine.  I "converted" the wiki to the website and also used the control panel to set my website at seedwiki.   Is this something I need to repair myself, or do you have to do this?

Thanks.

Jon

Jon, we'll have to set up the dsn on our severs so they know to expect multismart.. OK, it should be working now. -- ken

http://seedwiki.com/wiki/pop_india won't load at all. it just displays the code for the layout page.

please help!
 -billy
Billy, looks like your layout page got pasted into the editor in "view" mode rather than in "source" mode. We recovered the layout and the wiki looks fine now. -- ken and stephan

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Ken, the above "stuff" is on my wiki page.  Can you fix this?  Thanks Debbie    Debbie,   It's fixed -- ken tyler

http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/pfotzwiki22/pfotzwiki22.cfm?CFID=1517219&CFTOKEN=64652550&jsessionid=8830bb8b7dcd$F4$D3$9

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Jon

Jon, looks like its OK now. Let us know if it re-occurs. --ken tyler

October 27, 2007

Hi Ken:

The logo function in the header for older wikis like mine (Coastal_Governance) does not seem to be working. Also the page file link and discussion in the menu are not working either

Thanks,

John

PS Page file link and discussion links are now working. Can I fix the header logo  by pasting the logo file in the header as if it was a new wiki?

John, I've fixed the old widget so the images that people entered for their logos will now display in the headers correctly. -- ken tyler (monday morn)

John, good thinking... yes you could fix it that way and it would give you more control over the logo. The older way (of entering the logo file path as data and letting the widget display the picture

is somthing that we did back when users could not edit their headers directly. -- ken tyler

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October 24, 2007,

We're having trouble logging in to our password protected Wiki - page keeps reloading saying "Please enter your password".  Could you investigate please?

Thanks, Andy

 Andy, sure enough, a code change meant that seedwiki as not remembering the password you had entered. Should be fixed now.. -- ken

October 18, 2007,

I've tried to create/start my own account, but it does not seem to be working correctly.  Please tell me what I am doing wrong.  Thanks Carolyn Dull

Thanks Carolyn,

There was a problem with the sign up form. Should be fixed now.  -- ken tyler

October 17, 2007

Hi Ken, I wanted to let you know that up until now, Pfotzwiki has been working great.  My students have been going on each week responding to the question of the week.  However, now when my students go on the wiki, they can't edit the page.  It says error.  Can you tell me what is the problem?  Thanks, Debbie Pfotzer  Below is my address.  http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/pfotzwiki22/pfotzwiki22.cfm?CFID=1517219&CFTOKEN=64652550&jsessionid=8830bb8b7dcd$F4$D3$9

Debbie, sorry about that... we change the background machinery for the menus and there have been some bugs with the new process. They should be able to edit the page now.

ken tyler

September 26, 2007 | 1148 PST

Dear Ken and Stephen:

I know the problem's with me and not with seedwiki--I know I'm making some hairball error--but I'd appreciate some advice, please.  I have created a wiki for a class project (wikiDic), and while I, the owner of the wiki, can edit pages, no one else can.  I've combed the permissions and controls sections to see if I've disabled non-owner editing, but I don't think I have.  Even when I create a dummy account and then add that dummy as an owner, the original owner me is still the only one who can edit.  HELP!  Please.  Thank you.  Tracy

Tracy,
Only the main page of your wiki seemed to have been affected. I couldn't save any edits myself in firefox or in IE, but I could edit and save some of the other pages on your wiki. Also the fckeditor wouldn't let me click on its 'source' button, and that's an indication that the fckeditor couldn't process some of the html it was editing.

To fix it, in edit mode I clicked on the 'Text Area' link (located near the bottom of the page below the 'save your changes' button, and below the check boxes), that gave me a way to fix the html manually. The html wasn't all that bad actually. I'm surprised that it even choked on it. There were about 15 unterminated BR html tags in a row. The correct syntax for unterminated BR requires a back-slash at its end as in 'BR /'. Usually, the fckeditor corrects those minor syntax details, but this time it couldn't, it gave me a stack overflow in IE and some kind of object recursion error in firefox.
- Stephan

Thank you, thank you, thank you!  I teach English at Humboldt State, and I'm the tech director for a Writing Project site, and one of the reasons I recommend seedwiki to all my constituents is the fast, personal response you provide to YOUR constituents.  You guys are great.  Tracy
you can add borders to your pages by editing the content section of your _style_sheet page

/* ************** content *************** */

#content{
    margin-left:10px;
    margin-top:20px;
    font-size:small;
    border-style:none;
    border-width:medium;
    border-color:gray;
}
/* these are the options for border styles
border-style:none;
    No border. Color and width are ignored (i.e., the border has width 0, unless the border is an image, see 'background-image'
border-style:hidden;
    Same as 'none', but has different behavior in the conflict resolution rules for tables CSS3TBL?.
border-style:dotted;
    A series of dots.
border-style:dashed;
    A series of dashes.
border-style:solid;
    A single line segment.
border-style:double;
    Two parallel solid lines with some space between them. (The thickness of the lines is not specified, but the sum of the lines and the space must equal 'border-width'.)
border-style:dot-dash;
    Alternating dots and dashes.
border-style:dot-dot-dash;
    Two dots and a dash.
border-style:wave;
    A wavy line.
border-style:groove;
    Looks as if it were carved in the canvas. (This is typically achieved by creating a “shadow” from two colors that are slightly lighter and darker than the 'border-color'.)
border-style:ridge;
    Looks as if it were coming out of the canvas.
border-style:inset;
    Looks as if the content on inside of the border is sunken into the canvas. Different meaning on tableref? elements.
border-style:outset;
    Looks as if the content on the inside of the border is coming out of the canvas. Different meaning for tableref? elements.


values for border-width
border-width:thin;
border-width:medium;
border-width:thick;
border-width:10px;  <-- where you can put any number of pixels


you can change the color of your borders by changing the
border-color values
*/
-- ken tyler

I can't completly delete pages. I'm logged in and they are in the grey box "deleted pages", but when I click delete completly and click on "Submit changes" i see the same directory site again without changes...?

franz  symbolic name ->

franz, we decided that we would just remove the "deleted pages" directory from the page directory. For newer wikis now when you delete a page it is gone. Some older wikis still show deleted pages in a separate tab on their directory and there you can "completely delete" a page as well.   -- ken tyler

When I go to my wiki: http://csi_your_library.seedwiki.com  and click on "edit page," I get a "page not found." Also, when I try to log in, I get a "page not found."

Melinda Buterbaugh    symbolic name ->

Melinda, We think we found what was causing this problem and have it fixed now

--ken tyler  

26 July 2007

Hi folks!

I reported a problem on July 22 about a CFML error and then updated the post that all was well again.  I hate to say it....but I'm getting the same error again when I try logging in from the shortened url (e.g., http://food_strategy_midwest.seedwiki.com/).  Here is the error:

Please note that I do not receive this error if I login in from the seedwiki homepage.  Many thanks in advance. 

Warm regards,
jessica   symbolic name ->

I get the error above whenever I try to create a wiki.... I must be doing something wrong...

TGFW  symbolic name ->

TGFW,  when you get an error, its because we did something wrong... not because you did. In this case we added some code to the template that creates new wikis and when we did we forgot to take one possiblity into account....... which of course, is exactly what happened... thus the error.  It should be fixed now. Thanks a lot for reporting this.

-- ken tyler

July 25 '07

Ken,

My original intent was to use multiple _addcomments widgets per page until you indicated that wasn't the way it worked. Then I changed to multiple _insertcomments and an _addcomments for more generic issues. My preference is still to have multiple threaded forums/page. If this is a possibility, it doesn't matter how it is done--whatever is easiest for you. Thanks for the information.

John Faust symbolic name ->

July 23 '07

I keep getting this error today when I try to brouse my images to add to my page:

Please help ASAP

PS it is also very hard to figure out how to report a bug - I finally am trying this... page edit.

Thanks A. symbolic name ->

22-July-2007

UPDATE:  All seems to be well now!

Greetings Seedwiki team,

I'm receiving a CFML runtime error, request.wikipageparsedcontent doesn't exist.,  when I go to a members only wiki at http://food_strategy_midwest.seedwiki.com/ or even if I go to the seedwiki home page and login from there.   However, if  I sign is as the owner of the site from the seedwiki home and our wiki page all is well.  Can you tell me if I need to update a setting?

Many thanks in advance,
jessica  symbolic name ->

18-July-2007

Seedwiki team:

The right sidebar search box (which I assume limits the search to the specified wiki) does not seem to be working correctly. After entering a search string and hitting "go", the results page gives me the following error msg: "You did not enter anything to search for. ---> "

IMHO, the ability to restrict a keyword search to a specified wiki is a fundamental requirement of a wiki host site. Hopefully you will be able to fix this feature soon.

The "search seedwiki" button, which searches EVERYTHING (except maybe the private wikis?) on seedwiki seems to work fine. I am using IE version 6 as my browser.

-KW  symbolic name ->

KW,
Just fixed it. It's working now.
Stephan

KW, You're right. The "search seedwiki" searches everything but the private wikis.  --- ken tyler

17-July-2007

I'm evaluating wiki hosts for my organization. A "backup to local PC" feature is one of our requirements. Your zip backup seems to fit the bill. However, after unzipping the html files to the same directory, the relative links do not work. First problem was spaces in the windowsOS file path, that was easily solved by creating an unzip folder that has no spaces in the file path. Second problem is more serious. The links to other wiki pages in the backup files get parsed similar to

 "/C:/Temp_del/temp02/PageName?wikiPageId=1046300"

The "?wikiPageId=1046300" makes IE or FireFox unable to link to the file.

-KW

KW, we'll take a look. The ?wikipageid serves no purpose in a local file, and we should be able to remove it.

KW, it turned out that the ?.... was not the culprit, but the lack of a file extension. We've fixed things and if you download the pages now the links should work.

-- ken tyler

18-Jul-2007: Great job on the zip download fix. I noticed that embedded images in the backup html files are linked back to the seedwiki site. So they work great if I'm connected to the internet. I also noticed that the files that were uploaded to the wiki are not included in the backup zip archive. It would be nice to have the option of also backing up all of the uploaded files. For example all the files that are returned with the [_downloadallfiles]  widget. After clicking Control Panel !> "backup wiki-download pages" you could have another link that says 'download pages as separate HTML files (include all attached files).' It would be important to preserve the existing html-files only backup option, as backing up the attached files may be problematic to some users due to file size issues. May I also suggest that you consider renaming the "backup wiki-download pages" button to "Backup my wiki." For those of us users (business, academia) who use wikis as a collaborative method to keep standard operating proceedures updated, seedwiki's ability to backup-to-html-files (with the ability to backup all of the uploaded files attached to the wiki) would significantly differentiate seedwiki from most (all?) of the other wiki hosts out there. It would definitely put seedwiki on the top of my list! Go for it! -KW

BTW, My organization does marine biology and field work. We want to create a wiki of our standard operating proceedures. The requirement is that we can work on the wiki in the office and then take a snapshot and bring it with us when we are in the field (off-line) so that we can reference our documentation.

For a few weeks now, I've been getting digest update emails for what seems to be ALL the wikis on seedwiki.  I've finally looked into it, and it appears that on the subscription page, my subscription for "TivoWebPlus" has changed into a subscription for "" (blank).  When I tried to remove said subscription, I received an error page:

Update: subscribing to this page seems to have reset the other... The blank subscription no longer appears... Hopefully the emails will also stop.

Dear Tivo fan,
We've just fixed the request.constant.javascript_library bug, and we've also put some code to prevent blank subscriptions from being entered. Let us know if you're still getting these emails,
Ken & Stephan

terredev.com shows up at:  http://civilsociety.seedwiki.com/wiki/terredev/terredev, but not as www.terredev.com. DNS are set correctly. This should also be "terredev.seedwiki.com" in seedwiki structure.
Thanks for the help.
Jon
Sorry Jon, I dropped the ball on that one. I'll get it this afternoon.  -- ken tyler
OK, both the domain name and the sub-domain of seedwiki.com are working now. -- ken tyler

"C:\Inetpub\sevaSeedWiki\widgets\_send_email.cfm.
There is no _send_email widget" on    Civilsocietyblog.seedwiki.com.
No sendmail?
thank you.
Jon
Jon, OK, that's back too. We removed the widget by mistake while we were removing some of the other old email widgets that spammers have made unusable. -- ken tyler

14 June 2007  

New behavior, same error: Now when I just try to load my page (hammond.seedwiki.com), I get: CFML Runtime Error (etc.)

Used to happen only when making new pages

We just made some changes to the way seedwiki handles it's basic layout file. That may have caused a temporary error. I checked hammond.seedwiki.com and pages seem to be loading there now. Are you still getting the error when making new pages ? -- ken tyler

 This error should be fixed now... sorry... we were trying to fix a small security problem and the fix caused a couple of other errors it has taken us a while to track down... error reports like this are really helpful and we really appreciate your posting them. -- ken tyler

June 11, 2007

I am getting this error when I attempt to edit or create pages in my wiki too

Cheers,

Phil

11-June-2007

I am getting a similar error at http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/harvest_softball/game_log

Thanks!

10 June 2007

One of my wikis can't seem to create a new page: hammond.seedwiki.com

I hit "make a page", add the data, hit "save" and get

Other seedwikis I use are fine.

If it matters: I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.12

This might have been a temporary bug during the day... what wiki was this in.. i'll check it out  -- ken tyler

May 2005, 2007
Ken, Having problems publishing wiki as a web site, this link -> http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/the_seed_wiki_book/publish_a_wiki_as_a_web_site from this wiki http://208.106.181.117/wiki/timbersarmywiki/timbersarmywiki.   It takes me to this page http://www.seedwiki.com/errorPages/wikiPageNotFound.   I'm using a PC and Firefox 2.0.0.3 
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter
Peter, thanks for the pointer to the broken link. You'll need a red account to publish your wiki as a web site. That lets you have 2 menus for your wiki... one for the public... the other for the wiki owner. People usually take the wiki-type links (like edit this page) off the public menu and leave them on their owner's menu. This lets them use the wiki editor to create what looks like an ordinary read-only web site. -- ken tyler

May 17, 2007

I think I have found the bug that disabled links to new pages, as reported on May 1 below. The square bracket notation does not work if placed on a page below an existing anchor. The New Products page in the  fipse_elixr.seedwiki.com wiki illustrates this: the same line above the anchor works fine to point to the page Faculty Guide to Authoring an ELIXR Case Story, but inserted below an anchor it does not work as a pointer to a page.

It took a long time to find this, I hope you can fix it

Tom Carey

Tom,
Thanks to you, we found it !!!  This was a fun one to work on. 
It was a variable that was not being reset within a loop, that's what was causing the problem.
Please re-save any page that are currently exhibiting this behavior, and they will now work as intended.
We've tested this on your 'New Products' page, and it works now.
Kenneth & Stephan

Hi Ken and all:
I think I have found a bug in the _google_analytics widget that was recently introduced. I placed the widget in the footer of my Coastal_Governance site with the code given by Google Analytics when I registered. After several days, I was not seeing any results on the Google results page for my account. I checked with the Google techs and they said I had multiple instances of Google Analytics code on my site, which is not allowed. After checking the source for not only my wiki but for other wikis, I came to the conclusion that there is a Google Analytics code embedded in the Source of Seedwiki. I understand this to mean that no wiki owner can use the _google_analytics widget with their own unique code as long as the other code is in the Seedwiki Source. I hope this makes sense. To see this code, right click on this page, choose "view page source", then hit control-f, and type in "google-analytics". This will take you to the code.
John
John,
Looks like we mis-understood how the widget needed to be used. We'll change the way its being written into the page and solve this problem... it might take us a day or so. Thanks for such a specific and helpful report. -- ken tyler
Thanks Ken.
John

Everytime I use the "Search the PandaiWiki" search function it tells me I did not enter anything to search for.
-Justin

E: Now I can't get to my Wiki. I just get:

Good evening. Long time, no tinkering. Black boxes and intellectual freedom issues in the world of PHPBB boards drove me back to wikiland and your lovely build from the bottom wiki. I forgot a longstanding problem. It is very difficult to make tables with colored borders in either the editor or via the style sheet. I've used a workaround of either nested tables or very thin cells to get the same visual effect, but it would be nice to have pretty borders like Invisionfree.com and not have to use workarounds to create them.