MoinMoin: RealTimeEditing2009/HelpOnRealTimeEditing

Real-Time Editing

If two or more people are editing the same wiki page, they can join a shared editing session. While on this session, the text contents will be synchronized frequently, propagating changes made by one person to the others.

To join a shared editing session, you should use the Enable sharing button. The session is automatically created when the first person enables sharing.

Tip: Save frequently using Save and continue button. It will save the current page without exiting the session, avoiding some kinds of data loss (e.g. if someone deletes your text). Remember that every save can be recovered later.

Configuration

The editor_mobwrite_mode config variable controls how the backend synchronization server works. This can have the following values:

• None, i.e. real-time editing is disabled.

• "in-process" uses a backend server integrated seamlessly with Moin. This is the default.

• "daemon <host:port>" tells Moin to connect to a MobWrite synchronization server on the address specified. e.g. "daemon 127.0.0.1:3017" connects to a local running MobWrite daemon on port 3017. This option should be used for high traffic wikis where running MobWrite in-process results on high server load.

Backend

The real-time editor is based on MobWrite synchronization service. For more information, see the project page.

Performance

Real-time editor was not tested on high traffic wikis, and can potentially lead to high server load and bandwidth utilization.