On 16 November 2014 16:27, svetlana <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the second edit conflict, I read the message at the page top. It says: > > Someone else has changed this page since you started editing it. The upper > text area contains the page text as it currently exists. **Your changes are > shown in the lower text area.** You will have to merge your changes into > the existing text. Only the text in the upper text area will be saved when > you press "Save page". > > Emphasis added by me. We all know that people fail to read though. If we > can come up with a more colorful error message or a more intuitive edit > conflict page layout, I'm all ears. > However, any "colourful" message will likely get ignored more, not seen more – a problem which is exacerbated by wikis modifying many of the most common messages to be colourful. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness for more. > As to (semi-automatic) conflict resolution, our diff viewer probably has > to be fixed first - any conflict resolution starts with identifying the > differences, and our diff viewer fucks up at smallest possible edits or > problems as soon as an extra line break is involved, i.e. > https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AGryllida&action=historysubmit&diff=218760&oldid=218759 > (Were the first sentence edit and second sentence edits made separately, > and with a conflict, the logic would die (esp. with an extra line break > change involved inbetween)). > Moving to character-level rather than paragraph-level diffing might help here, potentially. I vaguely remember that we attempted that and abandoned it because it caused more issues than it solved back in ?2004, though. 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
