https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52199
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Bug ID: 52199
Summary: adding certain entities should not cause an edit
conflict
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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Every day we get thousands of new articles, many by new editors, and
notoriously the quarter of our new editors who start by creating an article are
less likely to stay than other newbies.
One reason for this is that there is intense activity around new pages - there
has to be in order to delete most attack pages within one or two minutes of
creation. But the side effect of this is an awful lot of edit conflicts between
people tagging articles, categorising them and actually fixing them. Much of
this could be resolved by the simple expedient of treating tagging,
categorisation and editing as three different types of edit. If someone adds a
new sentence or fixes a typo there is no need for that to conflict with the
adding of a category or template. A fairly simple bit of code should be able to
pickup all three different types of edit and combine them without rejecting
any. In effect the categories at the end and the templates at the top would be
treated as different sections to the rest of the article.
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