[pmwiki-users] Avoiding simultaneous edits
Ben Stallings
Ben at InterdependentWeb.com
Wed Sep 20 09:09:40 CDT 2006
I set up a wiki for a University class to use in their group projects,
at http://www.abundance-ecovillage.com/EnergyCourse . For some reason
they had trouble with the UserAuth passwords I gave them, so the prof
asked me to remove all password-protection from the site. It's now wide
open to editing, and most of the students don't supply Author names when
they edit pages. (You could say they have a communal spirit, at least
when it comes to course credit.)
They're having trouble now with simultaneous edits. I had expected that
the wiki would tell them when they tried to overwrite each other's work
-- I've seen that message often enough just working on my own! But it's
not doing that... it just cheerfully overwrites any changes that have
been made by other users. My question: Is this due to...
a) the fact that they're not using Author names
b) the fact that they're on a Wi-Fi network and so all have the same IP
address
c) the combination of a) and b)
d) some bug (or new feature I was unaware of!) in version 2.1.24
Thanks for any insight you can share! --Ben
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