New Extension – CSS

A new extension is available for use with WikiFYD.

Have you ever needed a few one-off styles for a wiki article?  This new extension allows you to add CSS rules to any article.

As always, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us!

Usage

If you have a wiki article called “Projects/CSS”, which includes styles intended for use with the article “Projects”, you would add the following wiki markup to the latter.

{{#css:Projects/CSS}}

CSS rules can also be included directly within the target wiki article (inline).

{{#css:
  body {
    background: yellow;
    font-size: 18px;
    color: red;
  }
}}

Examples adapted from mediawiki.org.

HTTPS support is live

We are excited to announce, SSL is now enforced for all our services (including WikiFYD).  If you have old links to HTTP pages, they will automatically redirect to the HTTPS version.

This is another step to further strengthen our commitment to your privacy and security.

In other news, we updated WikiFYD yesterday to automatically use any custom image you specify on your Google Apps control panel instead of our logo.  Go check it out!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, suggestions or issues.

PHP and MediaWiki Security

You may have noticed a couple major security issues in PHP and MediaWiki were announced over the past couple weeks.

While it is not normally our policy to bug you about every update we make, we want you to know that WikiFYD was updated promptly after these issues were announced and continues to be safe for you and your organization.

Our goals for our services include “worry-free” and we hope you find this to be the case.

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Keeping up-to-date

So great, you have your wiki all setup.  How do you keep track of what is going on?

Keep an eye on the recent changes page!  This page will show all of the recent activity on your wiki. http://wiki.ossfyd.com/a/<example.com>/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

Visit Special:RecentChanges to see what is happening

Visit Special:RecentChanges to see what is happening

Too much information?  Try using your watchlist.

To use your watchlist, click the star next to the search box on each page you wish to watch.

Click the star to add a page to your watchlist

Click the star to add a page to your watchlist

The first time a change is made to each page you will get an email.  No other setup necessary!  Don’t worry about tons of email because you won’t be notified again until after you have visited the page.

What other tips and tricks do you use for keeping up-to-date?  Let us know in the comments below!

Getting setup

Sorry, this post is obsolete now that we are using the new Google Apps Billing API.  We will post a replacement soon.

Getting setup with WikiFYD is super simple.

Start off by visiting our Google Marketplace listing.

Click the blue button to add WikiFYD to your Google Apps domain

Click the blue button to add WikiFYD to your Google Apps domain

After clicking the blue button you will need to enter your Google Apps domain name and click “Go”.

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