[WikiEN-l] too many edits???

[John R. Owens]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 17:45, Erik Moeller wrote:
> Christopher-
> 
> > This may help people who are leery of making too many edits at once,
> > for fear of timeouts or "Contributor conflic", as well as keep the
> > database from growing too much.
> 
> Yes, we've discussed this before. I think I have found a solution now that  
> I will probably implement at some point:
> 
> Automatically have a checkbox appear after the second edit by the same  
> user to the same page that says "Combine with previous edit"
> 
> This checkbox would not be active by default to avoid data loss. But users  
> who make lots of subsequent edits could pick:
> 
> User preference:
> [ ] Combine subsequent edits by default
> 
> Combining the edit would simply mean deleting the previous revision. The  
> edit comments could be concatenated.

Uses the last edit summary, or an automatic edit summary saying
"combined last X edits"? And could we have this turned on by
unchangeable default for Michael? ;)

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