On 12 November 2014 14:26, Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed Forester, your answer on the wiki research list is outstanding and > shines light on what collaborative editing entails. I really appreciate > pointing those issues out, and I fully agree. > > You ended by saying > > > The short answer is that it's a really interesting area of possibilities, > > but we're going to want to work through a lot of these issues and come up > > with an actual proposal about what this would mean. > > > My question is, is there currently a proposal to handle the issue of Edit > Conflicts for the mean time, before the holy grail wikipedia collaborative > editing concept presented at wikimania is realized? > No. > Or, we all, new editors and old editors alike, continue to endure, most > times, the annoyance that comes with editing conflicts? > I don't see this as an either/or issue; if someone can suggest some improvements in this area, we could experiment with them well ahead of anything on real-time collaboration. > Has that actual proposal started? > C. Scott's excellent code demonstrated at Wikimania "works", after a fashion, but doesn't tackle any of the MediaWiki issues, so… "no", ish. > I fully agree its a daunting challenge with the realtime editing thing, but > before that is achieved (perhaps maybe next 10 years time), I believe there > should be a quick 'hack' to that. > I'm all ears for ideas. :-) [Snip.] J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
