https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52197
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Bug ID: 52197
Summary: please fix certain types of edit conflict - new
section versus editing the last section
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Page editing
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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edit conflicts are a pain especially to newbies. Many common edit conflicts
could be avoided with minor changes to MediaWiki.
If the mediawiki software treated adding a new section as not conflicting with
editing the final section of a page then many common edit conflicts would
become parallel editing.
So currently if the page ends:
==blah==
I have an idea ********** signed ~~~~
and two people want to edit changing it to either :
==blah==
I have an idea ********** signed ~~~~
:breeches NotCensored, NotSocialMedia, iz fattening and possibly licensed to
the Illuminati. Do it! ~~~~
Or
==blah==
I have an idea ********** signed ~~~~
==Reptilians==
OK so per BLP we can't have a category of ''People named by ****" as
Reptilians. But how about a hidden category? Wouldn't that make more sense
anyway? ~~~~
One of them will have a nasty edit conflict and will either waste some time or
be lost forever. But if we changed mediawiki to say that a new section can
always be added without edit conflict then we can haz:
==blah==
I have an idea ********** signed ~~~~
:breeches NotCensored, NotSocialMedia, iz fattening and possibly licensed to
the Illuminati. Do it! ~~~~
==Reptilians==
OK so per BLP we can't have a category of ''People named by ****" as
Reptilians. But how about a hidden category? Wouldn't that make more sense
anyway? ~~~~
If you doubt the value of this do some stats on the number of edit conflicts
per day, and their effect on editor retention
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