Today we are happy to announce a major change in our product branding. Over the years we have found that the brand Wikidot is a limiting issue for the growth of our business. Not only it does not really reflect the fact that you can use Wikidot to create websites. Right, we know — the word wikiwiki means quickly in Hawaiian, but the global awareness of this word is negligible. The dot suffix does not help in understanding our mission either. Wikidot as a brand name is not only inequivalent, but also difficult to remember by our potential clients. Analysis provided by independent consultants seems to confirm our findings.
Because of this, our Board of Directors decided to rebrand Wikidot into:



During the next few months we will gradually move all our services to the new domain. If you own a website, your new address would be my-website.friendly-website-service.com. We have already started migration, as can be seen by visiting the following websites:
- www.friendly-website-service.com
- blog.friendly-website-service.com
- community.friendly-website-service.com
Actually, you can enter any current website, replacing "wikidot.com" domain with "friendly-website-service.com".
Not only we are dropping the "Wikidot" brand. We have also decided to stop using the wiki word and replace it with website. Over years we had difficulties explaining what a wiki is. A common misunderstanding was that we run Wikipedia ("Ah, so you are running Wikipedia?"), some thought it is a female name and we are in the online dating business ("Which one of you is Wiki?"). Not to mention many of our potential clients still confuse Wikidot.com with Wiki.com — both can be pronounced as "wiki-dot-com".
With the new name, Friendly Website Service, there is no confusion. It is easier to pronounce, is based on real English words and clearly reflects our mission. It makes us confident about the future of our product.
We deeply believe rebranding will dramatically improve our growth ratio and will let us enter new markets.
Michał Frąckowiak,
on behalf of Board of Directors
Friendly Website Service Inc.
Haha, I completely forgot it was April the first! Happy fools!
Kenneth Tsang (@jxeeno)
@Michal, http://friendly-website-service.com is giving me a redirect loop… :/
Kenneth Tsang (@jxeeno)
Thanks. You know, it is an early "beta", we are working hard to migrate all functionality.
You should have reported it via http://feedback.friendly-website-service.com/ though :-)
Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
Visit my blog at michalf.me
Hehe, and you forgot to change your signature :P
Kenneth Tsang (@jxeeno)
My signature looks just find at http://blog.friendly-website-service.com/blog:wikidot-rebranding-into-friendly-website-service/comments/show#post-1406770. So does yours :-)
Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
Visit my blog at michalf.me
Ah, it does too! Pretty awesome ;)
Kenneth Tsang (@jxeeno)
They nearly fooled me. By the way if you would consider changing the name to that… I would say try supercalifragilisticexpialidociously-websites.com that's not so long as the new proposal.
A - S I M P L E - P L A N by ARTiZEN a startingpoint for simple wikidot solutions.
He fooled me, I forgot about the April 1st. If it weren't Kenneth's post, I would have posted my complaints and disagreement! I just thought of thousands of links of my site with a wikidot in its name, left all around the Internet before I bought customized url and I got a desire to cry aloud.
Be careful, Michal, some people have a weak heart and this kind of jokes can be fatal! :P
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
Hehe, like all the best April Fool jokes, the Wikidot posts on 1 April each year are just about plausible.
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Very clever ;-) All the links are working. Just some little problems: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/--68KeHGIr_8/T3hdwN6LUMI/AAAAAAAAAE4/dt6R_kiLvTM/s912/1333288377633.png
You scared me. You really did. And I already knew it was April 1 and had told myself to trust nothing.
"Friendly Website Service," oh my God!
oh, god… - good joke, really… to b earnest - after reading these posts I get a little bit cooler….
well done!
:))
Edit: I dedected now one of our howto's:
http://community.friendly-website-service.com/howto:import-simple-excel-tables-into-wikidot :)
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
Sie können fragen und mitwirken in der deutschsprachigen » User-Gemeinschaft für WikidotNutzer oder
im deutschen » Wikidot Handbuch ?
I knew it was April 1, and decided to check in to see what you had done, but was surprised about the level of work you put in. Well played gentlemen, well played.