Earnie,
Wow, thanks for the link to the checkout module. That was really helpful. I think that is just what I need.
Earnie, maybe you are just better at Google than a lot of people. I know I'm better at Google than a lot people, but worse than others. Google (and other search engines) may look simple to use but in fact there are huge variations in skill levels to find information from search engines. There are a host of reading, page scanning, word finding, synonym generation skills that the best users of search engines all have. FYI I did at least two different rounds of Google searching on node locking and other key words recently and neither time did they lead me to the checkout module.
Earnie, I'd much rather celebrate your wonderful abilities to find relevant information than feel that I have to duck from your scolding.
Best,
Shai
On 3/10/08, Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Quoting Shai Gluskin <shai@content2zero.com>:
> Earnie and others following this thread:
>
> Earnie, your example actually shows the limits of simply Googling. In fact,
> the liquid wiki project <http://drupal.org/project/liquid> seems
> abandoned<http://drupal.org/node/148904>for the moment, which is the
> one that is mentioned in the Wiki recipe which
> Google displayed on top.
>
That doesn't mean that the ideas can't be used and the project taken
over. If there is interest in a module that isn't being maintained
then there are methods to take over maintenance. Searching google
again for ``take over maintenance'' gives a fairly good example of how
to go about this.
> There is a pretty detailed thread at
> groups<http://groups.drupal.org/node/7072>which points to more
> activity being done on the
> wikitools <http://drupal.org/project/wikitools> module. Indeed it seems
> there was a flurry of work on Wikitools in April and there is a D6 version
> for it.
>
Limiting to site:drupal.org pulls the groups.drupal.org and
lists.drupal.org data as well. I limit to drupal.org because that
limits trash hits that look promising but really aren't. Wikitools is
another good module.
> I have found this thread most helpful and informative and dislike the
> suggestion that simply Googling could have replaced the helpful discussion
> here.
>
Like answer I received asking the same question. Yes, there are a lot
of things that we can research before communicating a question and I
agree that discussion is helpful after the research has been done.
> My own concern is that functionality that would handle issues around
> simultaneous editing do yet seem to be provided. If people know otherwise,
> please post.
>
This point alone is worth discussion. Not just for the wiki instance
but anytime there is more than one person that can edit a node. And
yet, a google proves that even this is discussed already; see [1] and
[2].
[1] http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2004-09/msg00720.html
[2] http://groups.drupal.org/node/9551
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