[Mediawiki-l] Is it possible to enable database locking?
Rowan Collins
rowan.collins at gmail.com
Sat Oct 2 01:49:46 UTC 2004
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]
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