I won't go into reasons, but we would like to be able to have a single account that might be accessed by a number of people. This implies that more than one person might be logged into that account (and editing) at the same time. Will this mess with MW's head?
Thank you, Ken
P.S. Thanks once again to all those who have answered my questions in the past, especially Rob. My company _will_ be making a small donation to MediaWiki in the near future...(as soon as I get around to finding and sending them the donations URL :-) )
On 02/02/07, Ken McDonald ken@pixologic.com wrote:
I won't go into reasons, but we would like to be able to have a single account that might be accessed by a number of people. This implies that more than one person might be logged into that account (and editing) at the same time. Will this mess with MW's head?
I wouldn't think so. I'm typically logged into Wikipedia as me from several browsers, sometimes on the same machine and editing from both (typically checking things).
- d.
I haven't seen any problems surface with multiple users using the same account, either (problems that the software has, that is: There are lots of potential problems on the human side of things). It should work, even if multiple people are editing at the same time, from different IPs. You could always have a friend help you test to make sure it works.
By the way, the donation link is http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising No need to hunt it down. :p
On 2/2/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/02/07, Ken McDonald ken@pixologic.com wrote:
I won't go into reasons, but we would like to be able to have a single account that might be accessed by a number of people. This implies that more than one person might be logged into that account (and editing) at the same time. Will this mess with MW's head?
I wouldn't think so. I'm typically logged into Wikipedia as me from several browsers, sometimes on the same machine and editing from both (typically checking things).
- d.
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On 02/02/07, Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
By the way, the donation link is http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising No need to hunt it down.
That doesn't actually directly give money to the MediaWiki team, only to the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm not sure if we have an appropriate framework established for donating to MediaWiki as a project, anyway.
Rob Church
On 02/02/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/02/07, Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
By the way, the donation link is http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising No need to hunt it down.
That doesn't actually directly give money to the MediaWiki team, only to the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm not sure if we have an appropriate framework established for donating to MediaWiki as a project, anyway.
What are you waiting for? Get that blog and PayPal link up! "Will code for beer tokens."
- d.
On 02/02/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
What are you waiting for? Get that blog and PayPal link up! "Will code for beer tokens."
I would, except I'm supposedly on a break. I already have a development blog, although currently a bit neglected.
Rob Church wrote:
On 02/02/07, Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
By the way, the donation link is http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising No need to hunt it down.
That doesn't actually directly give money to the MediaWiki team, only to the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm not sure if we have an appropriate framework established for donating to MediaWiki as a project, anyway.
There is nothing in place to give money to MediaWiki. Tim Starling had a paypal link at one time, but now a day the WikiMedia foundation is sponsoring the software (hired two developers, mediawiki.org hosting).
Users can probably make a deal with one of the developers so he writes them an extension.
On 2/2/07, Ken McDonald ken@pixologic.com wrote:
I won't go into reasons, but we would like to be able to have a single account that might be accessed by a number of people. This implies that more than one person might be logged into that account (and editing) at the same time. Will this mess with MW's head?
At least for the 1.6 versions, I think there's still a bug where if the same person edits two sections on the same page at the same time, the second edit overwrites the first.
I don't know if this would be the case with the same user from two computers..
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