Wikidot review

The good

• Free!
• Easy to set up, I created a wiki for my girlfriend in a couple of minutes.
• Simple, no wysiwyg, but a wiki language editor. For me that means more control, so I don't mind. I have yet to find out how my girlfriend will cope.
• Very easy to make it so that I'm the only one who can edit all pages.
• A nice set of templates to change the basic view of your wiki.
• Possibility to backup your site. When choosing 'backup', it sends a request to the server. It takes a while for the backup to complete. When it's done, you can download the zip file it has generated. This zip file contains the files you have uploaded and the wiki source of each page.
• User management is very simple. It's easy to invite someone to become a member of your site and then to make them an admin so they can edit all pages as well.
• Small url of your final site, since the suffix .wikidot.com is pretty small.

The bad

• Doesn't work on my Palm Treo 680. When I press the login button, it just reloads the page. This means that I can view the pages on my Treo, but I can't edit them.
• What I'm missing is an edit button on top of each page, now I have to scroll down the whole page to edit it. Maybe there's some option that enables it, but I haven't found it yet.
• Backup doesn't store the complete database, so you probably have to manually restore each page and each file when something goes wrong. A full restore from a single zip file can save a lot of time when Something Bad^tm happens.