[Mediawiki-l] Conflicting edits

Hugh Prior mediawiki at localpin.com
Thu Jul 27 21:50:36 UTC 2006


You can probably "force" this to happen by choosing an extremely popular 
article on http://www.wikipedia.org (such as the main one currently 
referenced on the main page), start a almost null edit, wait 30 mins and try 
to save.

"Colleen Robledo" <colleenrobledo at gmail.com> 
wrote in message 
news:7bb974980607271014n7bcb8995ua92e84a4474442aa at mail.gmail.com...
> Hello.  Trying to find out what happens if 2 users to to edit the same
> article/section at the same time?  Does the 2nd user get a "read only"
> access-type message indicating the article is locked for editing by 
> another
> user?  Or will one user's edits overwrite those of the second user?
> Thanks,
> Colleen Robledo 






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