Edit Lock & stealing privileges on PBwiki

[Molly Knapp]

Hi everyone,

PBwiki has a feature called 'Edit Lock', which prevents two people
from editing the same wiki page at the same time. There is no way to
turn it off. If you are editing a page, no one else will be able to
unless one of these things happens:
* You save the page.
* You hit cancel and don't save your changes.
* You make no changes on the page for five minutes or more.

If you leave the page alone for more than 5 minutes, another user can
"steal" editing privileges from you. This cancels your changes and
they can make their own changes.

So...think carefully about stealing privileges from another user. If
you do this, the other person will lose all the work they have done.
In addition, you may want to write your annotation in a word
processing document and copy and paste it into the wiki, to lessen the
risk of losing content. Maybe you could use your Google Docs account
to do it!

Thanks,
Maureen 'Molly' Knapp, MA, AHIP
Reference Librarian
LSUHSC - New Orleans
mkn...@lsuhsc.edu
504.568.8339
http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/