Actually this may be related to something else. I ran into a few Wikidata edit conflicts on much more obscure items than Brad Pitt last week. I was quite surprised because I had never even seen the message before. It turns out I had caused the conflicts myself even though more than a few hours had passed since my last edit. I think this may have been a hiccup in the interface, as I have not been able to replicate this problem since.
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Lydia Pintscher < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Nicolas Torzec <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > In case of "edit conflict" the Wikidata UI doesn't provide any > explanation > > about the root cause. It makes the conflict impossible to fix for users. > > Would it be possible to provide more clues/explanations in the UI? > > > > > > Case in point: > > > > 1) Brad Pitt currently has three spouses on Wikidata: Jennifer Aniston, > > Angelina Jolie, and "2016". > > => See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35332 > > > > 2) I logged in and tried to remove the third "spouse" but it didn't go > > through and returned an edit conflict. > > => See screenshot attached. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Cheers. > > -N. > > Hi Nicolas, > > An edit conflict usually means someone else edited at the same time as > you - in this case probably fixing the same issue you wanted to fix. > Reloading the page and seeing if the edit is still necessary is > usually the best course of action. I'll see if we can make this more > understandable. > > > Cheers > Lydia > > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > Product Manager for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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