Hi,
Is there any provision to lock editing of an article for others while one person is editing that article?
i.e. if one person is editing an article, any other person trying to edit that article should get a message that it's being edited by another user.
Edit conflict feature may be confusing for not-that-techno-savvy users :(
Regards,
Jack
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Jack Eapen C wrote:
Hi,
Is there any provision to lock editing of an article for others while one person is editing that article?
i.e. if one person is editing an article, any other person trying to edit that article should get a message that it's being edited by another user.
Edit conflict feature may be confusing for not-that-techno-savvy users :(
No. Take into account that there's no way to know if someone is currently editing a page (i could press edit and not save, or keep the edit window open for hours).
However, you can instruct your users to put a template "I'm editing this page, don't touch" just before doing the big edits (and removing on submit).
I had the same problem; you have to edit your localsettings.php and set the path to the diff3-tool von your webserver.
Then, there will be no editconflicts in most cases (is the editors dont edit the same words/paragraphs).
Regards, Jan
Hi,
Is there any provision to lock editing of an article for others while one person is editing that article?
i.e. if one person is editing an article, any other person trying to edit that article should get a message that it's being edited by another user.
Edit conflict feature may be confusing for not-that-techno-savvy users :(
Regards,
Jack
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On 24/07/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
No. Take into account that there's no way to know if someone is currently editing a page (i could press edit and not save, or keep the edit window open for hours).
I seem to recall Ashar developed something to do that; an extension, using some AJAX magic, which I believe is an idea that was developed from a previous discussion on wikitech-l which Tim Starling started.
I don't know what state the code's in, but I imagine it's functional - have a look at AjaxShowEditors.
Rob Church
As Platonides says there is no system method for locking .. web locking is a very difficult thing to do.
There are a couple of templates available, I think on wikipedia, inuse and underconstruction.
We use the inuse template for this purpose
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-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jack Eapen C Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:12 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Only one edit at a time?
Hi,
Is there any provision to lock editing of an article for others while one person is editing that article?
i.e. if one person is editing an article, any other person trying to edit that article should get a message that it's being edited by another user.
Edit conflict feature may be confusing for not-that-techno-savvy users :(
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