[Mediawiki-l] simultaneous edition

Frederik Dohr fdg001 at gmx.net
Thu Mar 22 08:56:52 UTC 2007


> We will find useful some kind of warning as "be careful, another user is editing this section!" or "this section is blocked for edition by user xxxxxxxxx".

I thought there was such a warning on Wikipedia - but I might be wrong!?

> Anybody else having this problem? Any workaround other than a chat system to avoid conflicts? Could this be a feature request? Thanks!

Well, I'd been thinking of a page-specific shoutbox, which might also 
contain a automated log, sort of like
     2007-03-22 09:50 editing started by anonymous
     2007-03-22 09:55 editing completed by anonymous
But I'm not enough of a programmer to code something like that...


-- F.



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