Hello. Trying to find out what happens if 2 users to to edit the same article/section at the same time? Does the 2nd user get a "read only" access-type message indicating the article is locked for editing by another user? Or will one user's edits overwrite those of the second user? Thanks, Colleen Robledo
You get an "Edit conflict" and are offered to merge your changes with the other users' version. Only content in the upper text box is saved.
-- gary kirk
On 7/27/06, Colleen Robledo colleenrobledo@gmail.com wrote:
Hello. Trying to find out what happens if 2 users to to edit the same article/section at the same time? Does the 2nd user get a "read only" access-type message indicating the article is locked for editing by another user? Or will one user's edits overwrite those of the second user? Thanks, Colleen Robledo _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
On 7/27/06, Gary Kirk gary.kirk@gmail.com wrote:
You get an "Edit conflict" and are offered to merge your changes with the other users' version. Only content in the upper text box is saved.
Clarification: the second user to try to save changes gets the "Edit conflict" notification and is offered the chance to merge. The first user to save doesn't see anything different from normal editing.
You can probably "force" this to happen by choosing an extremely popular article on http://www.wikipedia.org (such as the main one currently referenced on the main page), start a almost null edit, wait 30 mins and try to save.
"Colleen Robledo" colleenrobledo@gmail.com wrote in message news:7bb974980607271014n7bcb8995ua92e84a4474442aa@mail.gmail.com...
Hello. Trying to find out what happens if 2 users to to edit the same article/section at the same time? Does the 2nd user get a "read only" access-type message indicating the article is locked for editing by another user? Or will one user's edits overwrite those of the second user? Thanks, Colleen Robledo
I think Hugh is once again mistaken, he means http://en.wikipedia.org, replacing en with your country code. However an edit conflict is easily replicated by opening your userpage in two windows, clicking edit in the first window and then in the second and clicking save in the second.
-- gary kirk
On 7/27/06, Hugh Prior mediawiki@localpin.com wrote:
You can probably "force" this to happen by choosing an extremely popular article on http://www.wikipedia.org (such as the main one currently referenced on the main page), start a almost null edit, wait 30 mins and try to save.
"Colleen Robledo" colleenrobledo@gmail.com wrote in message news:7bb974980607271014n7bcb8995ua92e84a4474442aa@mail.gmail.com...
Hello. Trying to find out what happens if 2 users to to edit the same article/section at the same time? Does the 2nd user get a "read only" access-type message indicating the article is locked for editing by another user? Or will one user's edits overwrite those of the second user? Thanks, Colleen Robledo
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