Inviting others to PBwiki

PBwiki offers a number of ways to share your wiki with others.

To share your wiki using a single invite key

Why you might do this

• You want the simplest way to let users in and are not concerned about keeping track of users
• You don’t need sophisticated access controls, just quick access to the wiki

How to do it

Email the wiki URL to your friends and include the password. For example, “Hi all, to get to the planning wiki, visit http://yummy.pbwiki.com — the invite key is fantasia”

Free or Premium users

You may have created an invite key when you signed up. Note that if you have a free wiki and you share the key, visitors will effectively be administrators of the wiki, with the ability to add pages, delete pages, and more. (They will not be able to delete the wiki. Only the wiki creator can do that.)

Premium users only

For more sophisticated access controls, upgrade to a Premium account. Premium users, click “Settings” >> “Passwords and Access” to set keys for readers, contributors, moderators, and administrators (see access levels here). For example, to give access to your co-workers to edit your wiki (but not delete pages), share the contributor key with them.

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To share wiki access without requiring an invite key

Why you might do this if ...

• You want to invite lots of users to PBwiki (e.g., by sending a single link to a mailing list)
• You don’t want to bug users with a password prompt
• You don’t need sophisticated access controls, just quick access to the wiki

How to do it

Copy the magic link in your "Share this" section and paste it into a message to them.

Anyone who clicks the link will be given instant access without requiring a key.

Notes:

• If the link is released publicly (without your consent), we recommend you change your key. Changing the key also makes the sharing link stop working.
• Using the magic link does not allow you to remove specific users from your wiki. To do so, change the invite key (Settings >> Keys and Access).

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To add specific users with the ability to uninvite them

Why you might want to do this if ...

• You only want to invite specific people
• You want to keep track of who has access and who edited what
• You need the ability to immediately remove users

How to do it

See our FAQ on Identities for details on inviting users, and more tips on using Identities.

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To add specific or mass amounts of users without the ability uninvite them

Why you might want to do this

• You want to email large amounts of users from your address book
• You don’t need sophisticated access controls, just quick access to the wiki

How to do it

Click “Share this wiki” at the bottom of your wiki. You’ll be able to email large amounts of users, including directly from your web-based address book (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo). Free wikis will send full access to invitees, while Premium users can select more granular levels of access controls.

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