[pmwiki-users] PmWiki.org & Sandbox refresh

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:00:48AM +0000, Graham Archer - EMEA Sun Center Operations wrote:
>    I notice that the sandbox on pmwiki.org site refreshes/resets 
>    every 15mins or so.  I would like to do the same thing for my 
>    site as my users tend to leave the sandbox in a messy state. 
>    A couple of questions for the community that I have are:
> 
>    1/ How is this done?

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AutoRestore

>    2/ Can it be done and still preserve the history/recent changes 
>    so that if a user does want to go back to something they were 
>    trying out before the refresh they can?

The pmwiki.org site tells a white lie in this respect -- it doesn't
clear every 15 minutes, what it really does is clear 15 minutes after
the last post.  So, the history is there for 15 minutes after someone
makes an edit.  However, when the page is cleared, the history is
cleared as well.

Pm