Write a petition together in real time

How it works

1. Open the petition's edit page, or an update, and choose Edit together.
2. Everyone who opens the same page writes in the same document: the name and the text of the petition, or the title and the text of an update.
3. Changes appear for the others as they are typed. The draft is kept automatically, so closing the page loses nothing.
4. When the text is ready, someone with the right to publish chooses Publish changes.

A new update can start on the same page too: choose "Write together" when you create it, and it is kept as a draft until you publish it.

Comments next to the text

Select a passage and comment on it. Others can reply, react, mention a co-manager or assign the comment to someone, and mark it resolved when it is done. Commented text is highlighted, and pointing at it shows the comment; a click or a tap opens the thread.

Saved versions

Save a version of the text whenever it is in good shape, for example before a bigger rewrite. The 50 newest versions are kept. Putting an earlier version back changes only the draft, so nothing reaches the published petition before someone publishes it.

An edit link for people without an account

Sometimes the best help comes from someone who will never manage the petition: a lawyer who checks one paragraph, a friend who proofreads. A co-manager who may invite others can create an edit link for the document.

• The link works for 1, 2, 4, 8, 12 or 24 hours, as you choose, and you can end it at any time.
• Each document has one link at a time: a new link ends the old one.
• Up to 50 people can join through one link. They type a name, and then edit and comment.
• They cannot save or publish, and they see no personal data: the managers are shown to them as "Manager".

Who decides what gets published

Signatories signed a specific text, so changing a published petition is a decision of its own. The owner can always publish. A co-manager can publish changes to the name and the text only if they hold the right "Publish changes to the name and the text of the petition". Others can still write and comment in the shared draft.

Who this helps

An association whose board wants to agree on the wording before anything goes public. A campaign that writes its updates in the evening, two people at two kitchen tables. An organizer who wants a quick read from a friend without giving them any rights to the petition.