[Mediawiki-l] Is it possible to enable database locking?

[Rowan Collins]

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 00:47:32 +0200, Steffen Siebert
<steffen.siebert at logware.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a little test with mediawiki showed that if two users are editing the
> same page in parallel, the changes of the user who saves last overwrites
> (removes) all changes the other user saved.

This shouldn't be the case: the second user should either: have their
edits automatically merged with those of the first user; or, receive
an "Edit conflict" screen, showing them the difference between the
conflicting versions, and asking them to manually resolve the issue.
 
-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]