Moving to Medium

Our news blog is moving to Medium. You may view our newest posts at medium.com/mywikis.

We are moving because Medium offers more modern tools that we believe reflect the values of MyWikis more so than Blogger does.

The future of credit card payments

We regret to inform our customers that we have decided to discontinue accepting credit cards as a method of payment. This is mostly because a significant portion of our credit card customers have become delinquent in their payments. As we are unable to continue collecting delinquent payments while efficiently being able to provide support and develop new features for our customers, we are going to phase out credit card payments by mid-July.

Here is our timeline of phasing out credit card payments and what you as a credit card-using customer would need to do:

• June 20: We collected our last payments on this day. Any payments due after this day will need to be paid via PayPal.
• June 21-July 20: The grace period for delinquent payments. You will be able to begin your PayPal payments during this period.
• July 21 and on: Payments will need to be made with PayPal. Any outstanding accounts will have their wikis canceled.

If you have not yet paid for this month:

Please begin paying immediately. We will not be billing you for the previous part of the month for which you did not pay.

If you have already paid for this month:

Please begin paying immediately; do not worry, as we will fully refund your first month of payments on PayPal if you have no other outstanding payments due. We will begin collecting payments the next month.

If you have any questions about our transition away from credit cards, please feel free to email us back. Thank you for using MyWikis; we appreciate your cooperation with helping our services become more successful and helpful!

Introducing WikiOnTheBook

Introducing WikiOnTheBook, a pass-around peer-to-peer wiki in the form of a collection of notes. We'll create a small booklet with blank sheets and lines for you to write your wiki article, the old fashioned way. Tired of electromagnetic waves penetrating your body when you browse wikis? Now, have a wiki delivered right to your doorstep—quite literally! We'll use UPS or FedEx's slowest method to send you the book. Then, you send it right on to the next person when you're done using it! Be sure to write something in it before you do though!

We'll be launching WikiOnTheBook in the United States. Access to it each time costs $109.99, a bargain for such a plethora of information. Contact us for more information at wikionthebook@mywikis.com.

Terml.io lives another year! :)

We're excited to announce that Terml.io will live for another year! What's our rationale for this decision?

• Nobody donated for the cause :( but...
• We know that our service is still used by many, commonly.
• Our domain expires during Advanced Placement testing. We understand that this is a big deal for those who'd like to save a few thousand dollars in university tuition, if not more. One of the most-used resources? Terml.io.
• We're up for feeling generous. Deep down, we all know that most high school students are broke and don't have money to donate to a website. Consider it a student discount.
• Everybody's Premium expires in 2100! How would we keep it for that long if we don't renew the domain? (Joke aside, nobody's premium will expire per se, it's just a system workaround we have for premium to work for everybody :P)
• The main goal of Terml.io is not to profit off of innocent high school kids, rather, it is to promote and foster learning. (And yes, good grades!)
• There is no profitable business model associated with a truly free-as-in-free-beer-for-all service.
• We hope that you will enjoy another year of successful studying with Terml.io!

Help us help you: Terml.io's domain name

Haven't found out how amazing Terml.io is yet? Visit https://www.terml.io and then come back here to help us! Thank you :)

On May 3, 2015, Justin Potts, Terml.io's founder, registered the domain name terml.io for one year. Since then, Terml.io has accomplished so much; our service is loaded with useful features, allowing studying vocabulary easier.

Of course, we couldn't have done it without you. We first would like to thank our users for their support. Without you, Terml.io would be nothing like it is today. And we hope we have served you to the best of our ability.

But on May 3, 2016, less than five months from now, terml.io will expire and the domain name will be no more if nothing is done.

Unlike Terml.io Premium and Terml.io's free web hosting provided by MyWikis, there is no way to get the domain name terml.io for free. So we need your help.

As Terml.io's service is distinguishable by using .io instead of .com, the cost for this kind of domain name is $30 for one year. Mr. Potts paid this fee a year ago, but since he is no longer covering the costs of the service and there is absolutely no income from Terml.io (we do this all for free out of our pockets), we ask you to pitch in and help us with our domain renewal fee.

In return, we give you our gratitude and a special, visible place on the Terml.io website thanking you for your contribution. The more you can pitch in, the larger your name will be.

Please help us survive. Terml.io is currently 100% donation-based, and any amount goes directly to running Terml.io. Absolutely nobody assisting with running Terml.io keeps any money. Excess funds will be reserved for Terml.io's future domain name needs and anything else that requires money unconditionally. The money goes directly to keeping Terml.io alive and at its signature domain name.

Please contribute below. Any amount is highly appreciated. PayPal requires a minimum donation of $1:

Once again, thank you. -- Terml.io staff

(P.S. If the domain is unable to be renewed, starting around March or April, the Terml.io website will move to a domain like termlio.mywikis.com, with a redirect on Terml.io. From May onwards, the domain terml.io would no longer function. Please help us prevent something like that from happening and continue the legacy of Terml.io.)

Announcing two new things

2016 will mark our fourth year in the wiki industry, and it will be better than all three previous years combined. To start off, we're introducing two new (but very large) changes.

1. Introducing MyWikis Plus

The introduction of MyWikis Plus will see a simpler plan called MyWikis Basics, whose price will drop lower than the current price, and the current MyWikis Basic plan will be renamed MyWikis Plus.

Before: MyWikis Basic - $7/mo
After: MyWikis Basics - $TBD/mo, MyWikis Plus - $7/mo

The new MyWikis Basics will have slightly less features than offered right now, some of which may be excessive to our customers who'd just like the basics. That being said, MyWikis Plus is a great option for mid-tier customers. In addition, MyWikis Plus should have VisualEditor support too! (Subject to change.) We plan to have MyWikis Plus launch exclusively on Twitter.

These changes will launch sometime this or next month. Stay tuned!

2. Introducing DokuWiki

MediaWiki sometimes just doesn't fit the needs of wiki users. That's why we'll be supporting DokuWiki in the coming months.

DokuWiki is a completely different wiki engine whose emphasis might match that of corporations looking for easy-to-administer settings, easy-to-understand (low learning curve), and more per-page access restrictions instead of MediaWiki's blanket access restrictions with limited customization.

We believe this will be a great alternative to our customers who might not feel that MediaWiki serves them best. We're still testing DokuWiki out, so it will be another couple months before we launch any DokuWiki plans. Currently, there will be two plans for DokuWiki: Personal and Organizational. They will be under the name "MyWikis Doku," so expect to see "MyWikis Doku Personal" and "MyWikis Doku Organizational." They will cost $5/month and $8/month initially.

(Note that DokuWiki does not have WYSIWYG like MediaWiki's VisualEditor. It would be advisable to stick with MediaWiki if you require a WYSIWYG-based editor.)