On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:05:37 -0700, Jared Nyland jnyland@novell.com wrote:
I was wondering if the best way to prevent editing conflicts is to use the In Use notice that I have found or is there a global setting for this somewhere that locks the page while someone is editing?
I thought I'd quickly note that, assuming the server in question has a compatible "diff3" utility installed, MediaWiki should use that to avoid an awful lot of edit conflicts ever being seen by users. That is, if two users edit different parts of the same page, the software will silently accept both edits and merge the changes as though they were made one after the other.
You may have realised that already, but some people assume they've simply been lucky not to see the conflict screen lately. :)