[Mediawiki-l] simultaneous edition

[Tim Starling]

Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team wrote:
>>>> Jim Wilsonwilson.jim.r at gmail.com>
>>>> 22/3/2007 02:07 >>
>> Why is this a problem?  If editors are working on different sections,
>> they _shouldn't_ conflict too much.
>> 
>> -- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
> 
> 
> They do! During this very last week, they have been complaining about
> save doesn't work. We frequently have several users copy-editing,
> adding, removing text, tables or figures to an article/report that must
> be shortly delivered.
> 
> 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".
> 
> Anybody else having this problem? Any workaround other than a chat
> system to avoid conflicts? Could this be a feature request? Thanks!

Make sure you have diff3 installed and correctly set up. $wgDiff3 should
be set to the path to the binary. This is necessary for MediaWiki to merge
changes between conflicting edits.

-- Tim Starling