FreeLists / dokuwiki / [dokuwiki] Re: huge attic

["Dr. Martin Meggle-Freund" <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't agree.

Working with more than one page at the same time forces users to use the 
save button several times. Otherwise there is too much risk to loose the 
control over the changes one does. This is particularly relevant when 
moving content, merging the content of pages, splitting the content of a 
page into more than one page, and similar actions.

I for myself do not have any problems using the preview as long as I 
edit only a single page at the same time. As soon as I have to switch to 
the content of other pages, I prefer to use the save button.

Besides: Since it will probably be hard to train people not to use the 
save button too often, I would really appreciate a feature which allows 
to shrink the attic.

To have a nice list of changes is particularly important for wikis 
containing content under the GFDL. People who contribute want to be 
clearly identified. If an edit session creates more than twenty change 
logs, the list is no longer significant.


Redeeman schrieb:
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 11:20 +0100, Dr. Martin Meggle-Freund wrote:
>
> > Typically, users hit the save button a number of times during an edit 
> > session instead of using the preview option.
> >
> > Is there a way to reduce the amount of data in the attic by merging 
> > changes made by the same user in such subsequent edit sessions?
> >
> > I would be interested to know how others are dealing with this issue.
>
> i simply use the preview option, its what its there for..
>
> i dont think there should be anything to clean it up, dokuwiki already
> has the preview feature, if people do not use it they are using it
> wrong, unless they want the many revisions
>
>
> > Regards, Martin

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