A community Wiki comparing and discussing different Linux distributions.

World of Warcraft website for the Unity Guild.

One of the nicest designs around here.

This wiki acts as a design doc for a game. Quite a nice example of an organized Wiki workspace.

This Wiki is a research workplace about commercially open platforms.

Last weekend the software on the server was upgraded to the latest stable Apache and PHP versions. Unfortunately Wikidot was unexpectedly unavailable for 30min because of a bug in one of the software components.

It seems that the upgrade solved at least a few problems. Most important one is the "blank alert box" when previewing or saving long pages. Hopefully you will not see this one again.

Although a lot of testing have been done before and after the upgrade there might be some not-so-obvious problems left. The fastest way to report them is to send an email to moc.todikiw|troppus#moc.todikiw|troppus.

Thanks to the open-source developers and contributors of Apache Web Server and PHP for providing their high-quality software!

regards
michal frackowiak

Today we have reached 10 000 registered users at Wikidot and the current registration rate keep stable above 100 new users per day.

Thank you all for using Wikidot, telling your friends about Wikidot or writing about Wikidot!

I realize Wikidot is neither MySpace.com nor Blogger.com with millions of users but it still makes a nice milestone in the growth of Wikidot. And a certain indication that Wikidot is going (or will soon go) mainstream.

So how large is Wikidot now anyway? You can see some stats on the main page but just to summarize where we are now:

• all users: 10 098
• all wikis: 4 584
• all pages: 114 039
• all page revisions (edits): 315 432
• average new users per day in February: 103
• average page edits per day in February: 2 743
• unique visitors in January: 130 000
• total page views in January: 1 600 000 (!!!)
• average daily visitors in February: 9 800
• average daily page views in February: 63 000
• current rank for Google search free wiki: 6 (!!!)
• current rank for Google search wiki hosting: 8 (!!!)

I think this is not that bad ;-) Other statistics are also very promising so to all of you who ask "How can I be sure Wikidot will not go offline some day?" I can firmly say: "Not a chance. We are going mainstream!"

In the last few days huge changes have been done to improve server performance at Wikidot.com. In fact I had to turn off searching a few days ago in order to save the database performance.

Improvements have been introduced on a few levels, from the PHP application itself (more caching) to the database structure. Results? Even under high stress during high traffic hours the server uses only ~3-5% of its cpu/disk resources. It seems that there is a lot of spare power now ;-)

To apply the changes the server had to be taken down for 28 minutes. It was the first downtime that long caused by maintenance since the Wikidot launched. So far the server has been working non-stop without a single reboot for the last 6 months.

Many thanks to developers of Memcached, PostgreSQL and many others for high-quality professional open source software!

OpenID is a nice way to reduce number of passwords and logins you have to remember when using various web services. At least it is designed to be ;-)

Anyway — from now on you configure any of the pages within your Wiki as your identifier when logging into an OpenID-enabled service. Wikidot.com does not (yet) offer OpenID server capabilities but you can easily configure a delegation from Wikidot to any of the OpenID identity providers, e.g. MyOpenID, LiveJournal, GetOpenID.com. So it works like this:

• I have a wiki at michal.wikidot.com and an OpenID account at myopenid.com (to be exact: michal.frackowiak.myopenid.com).
• Since Wikidot does not offer a true OpenID server but I want to use michal.wikidot.com as my public URL identifier, I configure a delegation (at Site Manager » OpenID) to michal.frackowiak.myopenid.com
• anytime I am using an OpenID-enabled service I log in as michal.wikidot.com, but the service forwards me to MyOpenID to authorize.
• this way I am using a cool Wiki URL instead of the generic one from MyOpenID ;-)

Read more at openid.net. Some people say that 2007 will be the year of OpenID. There are not that many OpenID-enabled services but it certainly becomes more and more trendy to use it.

Using an OpenID system you can:

• start an account at Zooomr (beta.zooomr.com)
• leave comments at LiveJournal (livejournal.com)
• log in into WikiTravel (www.wikitravel.com)
• and perhaps many more services (some listed here)

Recently I have been working on the WYSIWYG editing that I think is fundamental for the success of Wikidot. But I would not like other features to be blocked meanwhile. So here is something new:

SSL access via HTTPS://…

If you have a private site and do care about the security — you might find it VERY useful.

At the moment this feature is just for testing and is intended to be a premium feature with a monthly (small) fee. I hope you will enjoy it! I would strongly advise it for any private (non-public) Wiki!

You can configure secure access in your Site Manager under Secure access (SSL/TLS). Some explanations are there too.