Talk pages yep. There's a tendency to write 'edit conflict support!' sometimes :)
Ah-ha! I thought of that template when I read Peter's post but I didn't remember its name. It's got a nice green background and there are one or two similar ones, if I recall correctly. Thanks David!
On 25/05/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/05/07, Monahon, Peter B. Peter.Monahon@uspto.gov wrote:
Dave wrote: I am looking (have searched but not found) for an extension that would 'NOTIFY' the users that a page is currently being edited if they try to go into edit mode.
How about a plan B - make a template that says "editing as of (date) by (name), please wait for this message to disappear before adding your own edits" and put it in the page top, then edit off line, hope for the best, and hope someone else isn't also editing off line at the same time.
On English Wikipedia, this is {{inuse}} - used when one is doing a long and complicated edit. I haven't actually seen it used in a while, and hardly ever on a moderate- or high-traffic page where you might expect it. Mind you, almost all the edit conflicts I can remember of late have been on talk pages.
- d.
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