[pmwiki-users] Lost edits
Stephen Garland
garland at csail.mit.edu
Tue Jul 15 11:33:26 CDT 2008
Questions
Is there some automatic way for PmWiki to create checkpoints (aka backup
copies) of edits that are in progress?
Alternatively, is there some explicit way for users to save in-progress
edits without having the save appear in the page history of list of
recent changes?
Screed (to be read only if you wish and/or your answers to my questions
are "no")
Some feature like this is important (imperative) to prevent significant
loss of time and effort when something does wrong.
The only information I've seen related to this problem for PmWiki seem
to characterize it as a problem for "newbies". However, newbies are not
the only ones who lose network connectivity, hit the wrong key by
mistake, or haven't yet learned when PmWiki will inexplicably discard
edits (e.g., when attaching a file to a page being edited). And even if
they are, good software doesn't set booby traps.
I may be a PmWiki newbie, but I have used (and created) several other
Wikis in the past without getting killed anywhere near as often as I've
been killed by PmWiki, which I started to use because it was the
quickest way to get up and running for a new consulting engagement.
However, I will be forced to abandon PmWiki and switch to one of its
competitors if it continues to make me loose substantial amounts of time.
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