• If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.

  • You already know Dokkio is an AI-powered assistant to organize & manage your digital files & messages. Very soon, Dokkio will support Outlook as well as One Drive. Check it out today!

View
 

Free Wiki Edition (redirected from Free Standalone Edition)

Home
My PBworks
Workspaces
Administrative Functions
Billing

Free Wiki Edition

Classroom Edition
Campus Edition
Business Edition

Tip: The Free Wiki Edition can only upgraded to Classroom and Campus Edition.  If you intend to use PBworks for your Business, please sign up here.  For assistance in creating a free wiki edition, click here.

 

The free wiki edition of PBworks is still offered, but has a very limited feature set.  Per the terms of service, the service is provided as is, and while you may benefit from incremental improvements to the editor and overall performance of the system, the capabilities of the free service are not expected to be expanded in the immediate future.

 

Limitations of the Free Wiki Edition include, but are not limited to:

 

  • 50 MB per uploaded file
  • 2 GB total file storage per workspace
  • No per user folder, page, or file level security can be set.  Users in the Users list can be designated as having Reader, Writer, Editor or Administrator permission and that permission is the same for every page or file inside the space.
  • Workspaces may be private or public, but no exceptions for certain pages can be made with the free service.  If a workspace is set to private in the Workspace Security setting, then all content is private.
  • A custom color template cannot be implemented on a free wiki.
  • The Export feature does not include files or previous versions of pages.
  • User groups cannot be implemented in the free edition.
  • Customization features in the settings that let users remove elements from the right panel are not implemented. 

 

If the Classroom Edition subscription of a workspace is not renewed, the service is still available but downgraded to the free wiki edition.  When this happens, security locks on your workspace content are not released, and so if an Administrator fails to renew the data in the workspace will not be exposed.  However, changes to the security settings of all content will also be unavailable to the Administrator, and so they will be unable to modify security settings unless it is renewed.

 

Effects of a workspace downgrade include, but are not limited to:

 

  • PBworks will not delete your files, even if you're over your storage limit. Your file space will be reduced to the basic free level (2 GB), preventing further uploads.
  • New files larger than 50 MB will not be allowed to be uploaded. 
  • Your custom security settings will remain, but you will lose the ability to make changes.   Administrators will still have access to all data, but unable to change folder settings. 
  • Custom workspace CSS will be disabled.
  • Full zip export will become unavailable.

 

If the inconvenience of a downgrade is too much, then you will have to upgrade again to Classroom Edition to have the features re-activated.