I run a mediawiki site for a small group of users.
I recognize that my question is very basic, unfortunately I couldn't find an answer to it.
I noticed that when two users (or probably more) edit the same page at the same time, the entire contents of the page are totally erased when the user who last tries to save his/her changes clicks on "save page".
Although I can bring back one of the previous versions, this seems to be a major problem, and I always assumed that mediawiki had a clever way to deal with this (sending a warning to one of the users, for example).
What shall I do? Is there something I can change in some file(s)?
Thank you in advance for your help.
________________________________________________________ Luis Borda de Agua 2502 Plant Biology Building University of Georgia Athens GA 30602 USA Phone: (706) 583-0943 Fax: (706) 542-1805
Please provide the version number for the copy of MediaWiki you are running.
Rob Church
On 17/01/06, Luis Borda de Agua lbagua@uga.edu wrote:
I run a mediawiki site for a small group of users.
I recognize that my question is very basic, unfortunately I couldn't find an answer to it.
I noticed that when two users (or probably more) edit the same page at the same time, the entire contents of the page are totally erased when the user who last tries to save his/her changes clicks on "save page".
Although I can bring back one of the previous versions, this seems to be a major problem, and I always assumed that mediawiki had a clever way to deal with this (sending a warning to one of the users, for example).
What shall I do? Is there something I can change in some file(s)?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Luis Borda de Agua 2502 Plant Biology Building University of Georgia Athens GA 30602 USA Phone: (706) 583-0943 Fax: (706) 542-1805
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Please provide the version number for the copy of MediaWiki you are running.
VERSION:
Media Wiki 1.5 alpha 1 Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7c PHP/5.0.4 mod_perl/1.999.23 Perl/v5.8.6
OPERATING SYSTEM (Sun workstation)
2.10 (solaris 10)
And again, I appreciate all the help you can provide, Cheers,
Luis
On 17/01/06, Luis Borda de Agua lbagua@uga.edu wrote:
I run a mediawiki site for a small group of users.
I recognize that my question is very basic, unfortunately I couldn't find an answer to it.
I noticed that when two users (or probably more) edit the same page at the same time, the entire contents of the page are totally erased when the user who last tries to save his/her changes clicks on "save page".
Although I can bring back one of the previous versions, this seems to be a major problem, and I always assumed that mediawiki had a clever way to deal with this (sending a warning to one of the users, for example).
What shall I do? Is there something I can change in some file(s)?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Luis Borda de Agua 2502 Plant Biology Building University of Georgia Athens GA 30602 USA Phone: (706) 583-0943 Fax: (706) 542-1805
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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________________________________________________________ Luis Borda de Agua 2502 Plant Biology Building University of Georgia Athens GA 30602 USA Phone: (706) 583-0943 Fax: (706) 542-1805
Luis Borda de Agua wrote:
I run a mediawiki site for a small group of users.
I recognize that my question is very basic, unfortunately I couldn't find an answer to it.
I noticed that when two users (or probably more) edit the same page at the same time, the entire contents of the page are totally erased when the user who last tries to save his/her changes clicks on "save page".
This could be a problem with the automated conflict merging. This uses the GNU diff3 utility, if found during installation.
Some old versions of MediaWiki would incorrectly detect an incompatible Solaris version of diff3 which could result in failure. Try poking around with this (check LocalSettings.php).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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