I just discovered this problem with my MW 1.4.0 site:
* UserA begins editing section1 of a wiki page. * UserA also begins editing section2 of a wiki page. * While the section2 edit is still open, section1 edits are saved. * Section2 edits are then saved. * The changes made to section1 are lost.
Is this fixed in successive (to 1.4.0) versions of MediaWiki?
-Matt
Matt England wrote:
I just discovered this problem with my MW 1.4.0 site:
- UserA begins editing section1 of a wiki page.
- UserA also begins editing section2 of a wiki page.
- While the section2 edit is still open, section1 edits are saved.
- Section2 edits are then saved.
- The changes made to section1 are lost.
Is this fixed in successive (to 1.4.0) versions of MediaWiki?
This is intended, there is no conflict merging when edits are made by the same user. You should also uprade to lastest MediaWiki 1.4 version :)
At 9/4/2005 10:29 AM, Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Matt England wrote:
I just discovered this problem with my MW 1.4.0 site:
- UserA begins editing section1 of a wiki page.
- UserA also begins editing section2 of a wiki page.
- While the section2 edit is still open, section1 edits are saved.
- Section2 edits are then saved.
- The changes made to section1 are lost.
Is this fixed in successive (to 1.4.0) versions of MediaWiki?
This is intended, there is no conflict merging when edits are made by the same user.
Is there not an obvious conflict in the above scenario? Did I miss something?
I have several wiki docs that are growing way too big for me to not have simultaneous edits going on at the same time. If MW developers are telling me that I can not do this, I guess have no choice, but it's not a preferred constraint for me.
Alas other things are much more important to me, like case-insensitive wiki-page names (or the capability to support such a thing via a programmable setting).
An aside: What happens when multiple users do the same thing (ie, when multiple users edit different sections of the same wiki page)? Will their edits clobber one another? If not, then why not make the same capability available for one user?
You should also uprade to lastest MediaWiki 1.4 version :)
Yep, trying hard to find time to do that. :)
-Matt
Matt England wrote:
I have several wiki docs that are growing way too big for me to not have simultaneous edits going on at the same time. If MW developers are telling me that I can not do this, I guess have no choice, but it's not a preferred constraint for me.
One way (perhaps "the wiki way") to get out of this is to split the long pages into smaller ones, and optionally present the whole collection as one page with {{includes}}. This is how it works at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28all%29 where the contents looks like this:
=News= {{Wikipedia:Village pump (news)}} =Policy= {{Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)}} =Technical= {{Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)}}
Edits of subsections will take place in the indivudual chapter pages, so two users can edit different chapters without conflict.
Matt England wrote:
I just discovered this problem with my MW 1.4.0 site:
- UserA begins editing section1 of a wiki page.
- UserA also begins editing section2 of a wiki page.
- While the section2 edit is still open, section1 edits are saved.
- Section2 edits are then saved.
- The changes made to section1 are lost.
Is this fixed in successive (to 1.4.0) versions of MediaWiki?
This is fixed in current CVS HEAD (1.6alpha) and REL1_5 (next 1.5 release). Automatic merging requires GNU diff3, same as automatic merging of full page edits.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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