I will not abuse this.

I'm sure it's possible, because every file you upload has a 'real' url you could link to. If you open the files section on a page, and then hover over the individual files you should be able to get the url for them.

As to whether it's 'legal' or not, not sure. But if you want a better solution, you might check out http://www.uploadingit.com. It is another free hosting site that allows direct access, IIRC. I can't say as to whether it's the best out there, since it's the only one I've used, but I've been pretty happy with what little I use it for.

I dont wanna say "hotlink" cuz that has a negative connotation.

But like on the forum I run, psphomebrew.net sometimes I upload Homebrew applications, and as of now I upload to the site mihd.net or ifile.it (one click hosters) and when vistors goto download they have to request the download link, it would be cool if I could just link directly, or am I only allowed to link to my files from my Wiki?

• Wikidot
• My Yahoo Account
• My Computer

In case if I would forget to do a backup to my computer, then it would be nice to have one automatically emailed to me

I think, the idea and the security of a "backup" is to store & spread the data on more than only one place.
And the problem is only to remember to do it periodically…
On my company pc there is a reminder of outlook to do it every week - than I make a new backup zip file on wikidot and make a download to my pc.
Than it is on two places stored…( wikidot.com and my pc)

What does it make it more secure to send it over / to your yahoo account ( periodically) .
You can do it manually of course to have it on a second backup storage…

To go back at the start and collect the idea:
You want

• a peridcally automatic backup
• with selectable content(text, files, meta data (tags, parents)
• and to send this (zip'd) file to a fixed mail adress,
• of course only if there are updates on the wiki site since the last backup….

As Squark said - this could be a primary account feature -(payable for everyone who wants this service).

I do not understand the need you have - what does you hinder to download the backup-zip file on another place?
( like your computer - you can send than the zio file to another mail servce..)

I could go anytime at squark.wikidot.com/backup and find the latest backup file, download it to my computer and that's it. Whay do you think about it?

Well, it would still be on Wikidot's server so there could be cases when that would not be good….

Include page sources
Include file attachments

I can just turn off the second one and I just get text…

EDIT: Oops, this is supposed to be a reply to Helmuti_pdorf 's post….

4. I second the idea to have an automatic "weekly standardized backup" of the text only (perhaps +Forum in the future) with standard backup file name ( overwriting the oldest from 3 - 7 weekly in a wrap around .
Doing an automatic copy/send/download is not really neccessary - the wikidot servers are "hot backup" permanently.. I believe this is the responsibility of a site manager.

I just want the text of my Wiki backed up.

Don't you only get 10 MB of free hosting (or is the 300 MB thing for people who pay) anyways.

Free or paid, I just want the text of my Wiki. Any images I upload or on image hosting sites (and on my hard drive anyways).

And I think he's suggesting a feature. It's not against ToS if wikidot is the source of the automation.

Rather than updating to email, perhaps it could send the file to a file hosting service, like mediafire, so email addresses wouldn't be a problem. I could see a feature like that being pretty useful.

Could work for "old", not longer used/changed wikis too - sending always mails and mails and mails ….perhaps to adresses which does not exist anymore…

I would not allow such automatic tasks - ( and is against the ToS too…).. giving control away to scripts..

I would like to have the backup.zip automatically made and send as an attachment to the email address in my wikidot profile. I think that would be a good option, this way for people who might forget to backup can have it done for them, and since I use my mail with Yahoo the backup will not be on Wikidots servers so if Wikidots server crashes the backup will be safe on their server. (This feature might not be so well for Wikidot admins who have their email accounts on the Wikidot server…)