diff --git a/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/mdx_circuit.py b/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/mdx_circuit.py
index 1f47dd0568..bc58ad91ed 100755
--- a/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/mdx_circuit.py
+++ b/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/mdx_circuit.py
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ circuit-schematic:[["r",[128,48,0],{"r":"1","_json_":0},["2","1"]],["view",0,0,2
 import markdown
 import re
 
-import simplewiki.settings as settings
-
 from django.utils.html import escape
 
 try:
@@ -68,5 +66,7 @@ class CircuitLink(markdown.inlinepatterns.Pattern):
         return etree.fromstring("<div align='center'><input type='hidden' parts='' value='" + data + "' analyses='' class='schematic ctrls' width='640' height='480'/></div>")
         
     
-def makeExtension(configs=None) :
-    return CircuitExtension(configs=configs)
+def makeExtension(configs=None):
+    to_return = CircuitExtension(configs=configs)
+    print "circuit returning " , to_return
+    return to_return
diff --git a/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/mdx_wikipath.py b/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/mdx_wikipath.py
index 5072526247..d9381e4bee 100755
--- a/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/mdx_wikipath.py
+++ b/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/mdx_wikipath.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class WikiPathExtension(markdown.Extension):
     def __init__(self, configs):
         # set extension defaults
         self.config = {
-                        'base_url' : ['/', 'String to append to beginning or URL.'],
+                        'default_namespace' : ['edX', 'Default namespace for when one isn\'t specified.'],
                         'html_class' : ['wikipath', 'CSS hook. Leave blank for none.']
         }
         
@@ -62,7 +62,10 @@ class WikiPath(markdown.inlinepatterns.Pattern):
         if article_title.startswith("/"):
             article_title = article_title[1:]
         
-        url = self.config['base_url'][0] + article_title
+        if not "/" in article_title:
+            article_title = self.config['default_namespace'][0] + "/" + article_title
+        
+        url = "../" + article_title
         label = m.group('linkTitle')
         a = etree.Element('a')
         a.set('href', url)
diff --git a/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/models.py b/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/models.py
index 354ff85921..fa4323cf2c 100644
--- a/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/models.py
+++ b/lms/djangoapps/simplewiki/models.py
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ class Revision(models.Model):
 
         # Create pre-parsed contents - no need to parse on-the-fly
         ext = WIKI_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS
-        ext += ["wikipath(base_url=%s)" % reverse('wiki_view', args=('/',))]
+        ext += ["wikipath(default_namespace=%s)" % self.article.namespace.name ]
         self.contents_parsed = markdown(self.contents,
                                         extensions=ext,
                                         safe_mode='escape',)
diff --git a/lms/static/sass/_shared_forms.scss b/lms/static/sass/_shared_forms.scss
index 5086199d59..3bd5f281b8 100644
--- a/lms/static/sass/_shared_forms.scss
+++ b/lms/static/sass/_shared_forms.scss
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 form {
-  font-size: 0em;
+  font-size: 1em;
 
   label {
     color: $base-font-color;
diff --git a/lms/static/sass/application.css b/lms/static/sass/application.css
index d5f230ee0c..eea049a73a 100755
--- a/lms/static/sass/application.css
+++ b/lms/static/sass/application.css
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ p.ie-warning {
   text-align: left; }
 
 form {
-  font-size: 0em; }
+  font-size: 1em; }
   form label {
     color: #3c3c3c;
     font: normal 1.2rem/1.6rem Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;