Fwd: Re: [pmwiki-users] Is there a way to tell if anyone is editing a wiki page?

[Joachim Durchholz]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> Yes, I can imagine.  Hey, here's another thought -- how about if
> we only generate the "someone is editing the page" message if that
> person's edit came with value set for Author (i.e., the edit is 
> non-anonymous).  This would help to distinguish between edits coming
> from humans versus robots.

When would you detect whether the edit is anonymous? If it's the first 
post of that person, or the person has switched off cookies, PmWiki 
won't know it's a non-anonymous edit until the user hits the Save 
button. That's a bit late.
Now detecting it at the start of the edit session runs into time-out 
issues. Somebody might start to edit the page, abort after a minute, but 
the page retains the warning until the time-out expires - lots of 
spurious warnings then.

Regards,
Jo