Discourse Shared Edits

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

	Summary	Discourse Shared Edits allows multiple users to collaboratively edit posts in real time. This feature is default disabled and must be enabled explicitly by moderators on posts.
	Repository Link	https://github.com/discourse/discourse-shared-edits
	Install Guide	How to install plugins in Discourse

As this is an experimental plugin maintained by the Discourse team, Support, Contribute > Bug, Contribute > UX, and Contribute > Feature requests can be made in the respective categories here on Meta, and tagged with the appropriate plugin tag. Click on a link below to get one started.

Support Bug UX Feature

Features

Moderators (including TL4) can toggle shared edits on a topic (red) via the gear icon on the composer bar. Note that the plugin does not enable edit access per se. This means that if you want non-moderators to be able to collaboratively edit the post you must also make the post a Wiki (green, optional):

Once toggled edits are collaborative. You’ll notice the button in the bottom left is now marked ‘Done’ is it is continuously saved in real time.

Configuration

• shared edits enabled : to enable or disable the feature
• shared edits editor mode : markdown or rich editing (mixed is not supported)
• shared edits commit delay seconds : how many seconds before post is saved in the database as a revision.

You might like to also install this Theme Component to give you more control of the appearance of Shared Edits posts:

Wikified Posts Component

Simple Description This theme component enables you to make Wiki posts (and Shared Edits posts) more obvious. Wikis and Shared Edits are a powerful feature of Discourse, but many users are unfamiliar with the concept and find the UI just a bit too subtle. This component makes it crystal clear, packaging the content from Change the style of a wiki post. Screenshots [image] Detailed Description Installing this component enables you to control the background colour of Wiki posts, and to add s…

TODO

• Allow non-TL4 members to turn on Shared Edits - see this

This plugin was inspired by @gdpelican’s collude but is a complete re-write so it fits better into the current Discourse designs.

[satonotdead]

I wonder if someone else considers it appropriate to show the list of all authors when the shared edits plugin is enabled.

Our main use case is to display credits on a common wiki knowledge base, where users can contribute to gain a badge and/or maintain a specific tier (old life-time subscribers → top tier while they maintain monthly real and low-effort engagement).

I think that fits better here, but it was requested as an addition to vanilla wiki categories:

Add overview summary of all wiki edits to revision history

List of wiki editors

Show wiki post contributors?

Shared Edits History

[putty]

@sam

TODO

• Allow non-TL4 members to turn on Shared Edits - see this

Is there any estimate when this will be worked on?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Is done thanks for reminding me

FEATURE: allow shared edits to be enabled on any group (#163)