WikiQuestions

Any questions about practicalities of Wiki, put 'em in here:

(You may also want to try the WikiMorals pages for etiquette/ethics type questions.)

What happens in wiki if two people are editing at the same time? When one clicks save and goes away, then the other clicks save, will that undo the work of the former?

No, Wiki will warn you - then you can click Back, copy what you wrote, go to the original page, click EditText again, and paste in your changes. Phew! (Simpler than it sounds.)

Is there a means of policing? For instance, if some wicked person deleted an entire page, could we isolate who did it? Could we reprimand them? Could we recover the page?

We could know their IP address so theoretically they could be traced. However, Wiki works on the principle that there's no real point messing it up: it happens very occasionally and the participants experience some collective grief before picking up and carrying on.

Some Wikis keep all previous versions. Some keep none. This one keeps one previous version but no more. This makes what we build here very fragile and hence more precious?

(Note from AndyAtGuiltyExpression - I'll try to remember to take backups every now and then but don't count on it!)