Greetings,

There are a whole bunch of external editors for Mediawiki, but are any of
them capable of merging/diffing changes instead of simply overwriting *if*
the session is closed in the meantime?  That is, if:

1) I open an article externally (v1)
2) Somebody else changes the article (v2a)
3) I save the article back to the Wiki (v2b)

Ideal behavior would be that, assuming no conflicts, v2a and v2b are
silently merged into a new version 3.  MediaWiki does not appear to
support this -- by design?

Acceptable behavior would be that I am warned of the difference between
v2a and v2b and allowed to manually resolve them.  This works _if_ my
original MediaWiki edit session is still open, but if I have closed and
reopened it (or simply gone away for long enough for the session to end,
so I need to reload the edit page), MW considers v2b newer than v2a and
simply silently overwrites it.

Any ideas for how to fix and/or work around this?

Cheers,
-jani



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