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Colleen Robledo

27 Jul 2006 27 Jul '06

7:14 p.m.

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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Gary Kirk

27 Jul 27 Jul

9 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conflicting edits

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(a)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(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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George Herbert

9:42 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conflicting edits

On 7/27/06, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)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. -- -george william herbert george.herbert(a)gmail.com

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Hugh Prior

11:50 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conflicting edits

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(a)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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Gary Kirk

28 Jul 28 Jul

3:19 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Conflicting edits

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(a)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(a)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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