Concurrent editing is something being researched to a small degree. The issues you raise are well known, and there are others as well, but there may still be ways forward. This is not something that WMF is devoting lots of resources to, just experimenting with a bit - especially in light of how popular Etherpad has become among WMF employees.
- Trevor On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote: > On 4 September 2011 13:44, Harry Burt <[email protected]> wrote: > > [Visual editor] Ian Baker > > <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Raindrift> investigated > > and started to work on a chat system to be integrated to the concurrent > > editing interface, for collaboration and live help. > > There's a concurrent editing interface? Where is it (intended to be) > used? It would never work for Wikipedia. The lack of a clear revision > history and identifiable authors would be a big problem. It would also > interfere with collaboration between people that aren't online at the > same time (imagine three people are active on an article, two of which > are online at the same time and so use the concurrent interface, how > does the third person get involved?). > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
