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If two people are editing an EE wiki article at the same time, whomever saves last wins…and the other person editing (who saved first) loses their changes.

Is there anyway to prevent this?

How would you like it to be prevented? It’s really nothing simple you’re talking about.

See this thread for a previous discussion of the issue. Bottom line: not easy.

There is a free extension that you can use though to help users be aware that someone else is editing the article, Edit Alert.

To add to the bottomline, “preventing” this would either mean the user last clicking the Edit button would somehow be rejected, which then would need to be based upon sessions, OR it would have to separate the two revisions (from the two users) and “choose” which one to display. It’s not easy at all.

Aye, such mechanisms could allow a vandal to “edit lock” an article by simply botting to keep his session alive.

If two people are editing an EE wiki article at the same time, whomever saves last wins…and the other person editing (who saved first) loses their changes.

By “loses their changes” do you literally mean the changes are irretrievably lost and can’t even be found by going back in the page history (I’m only really familiar with Wikipedia’s way of doing things, so if EE’s Wiki doesn’t have this feature, my apologies).

The changes are available in the history, but it’s not easy to ferret out what changed between the different revisions.

I’ve installed the Edit Alert extension that Derek noted and it works great. At least people will now be clued in if someone else is editing the same page.

Thanks Derek! That was a big help.