I feel silly. I’m not sure how I missed it but it turns out Wikispaces did respond to my initial post. I guess I didn’t recognize the name and didn’t see the signature as I was reading the comments. I’m sorry about that..
Here is what they said:
Hi Chris,
We’re sorry to hear we contributed to what sounds like a very rough day. Here are a few things we’ve got in store at Wikispaces we think will help a lot:
1. Allowing guest page creations. This makes good sense. We’ll add it as an option in the manage space section, defaulting to “off”. The reason we haven’t had this in the past is that it’s something spammers pounce on — but with active space organizers and our spam protection systems, we think it will be useful for many wikis.
2. Account creation for schools. Every week, we create thousands of accounts on behalf of teachers for students who don’t have email addresses. Right now, we do this based on requests sent to us, but we’ve got plans to streamline this process for organizers. We want you to be able to create 20 accounts for your wiki in a heartbeat — ideally, in the time it takes to go from Plan A to Plan B while your students are in the room.
3. Our editor. We’ve got some frequently-requested formatting features we’re testing right now. We think you’ll love them, and find they fill some gaps without making the editor overly complicated (or slow!).
As always, we’re here to help and listen to any suggestions you might have: help@wikispaces.com. We’ve gotten to where we are thanks to thousands of passionate people like you — a huge percentage of them teachers — who tell us where we’ve gone wrong and what we can do better.
Best,
James
jbyers@wikispaces.com
Thanks guys! I’m glad to see that these changes are under way!
Chris
Ann Oro says:
I’m looking forward to these changes. I like the company for their responsiveness. It’s a nice reply.
Ann
20th February 2008 at 4:38 pm
Ms H says:
This is why I think wikispaces rock! I’m one of those teachers that has been requesting account creations for students with no emails. It’s so great to see creators responding so promptly to their user’s requests and I really appreciate wikispaces dedication to education and educators.
Thanks for being so passionate about wikis Chris! You are the catalyst for so many of the changes too!
20th February 2008 at 5:07 pm