Last modified: 2006-06-16 07:20:56 UTC
When someone presses edit, a flag should be flipped so that if someone else presses edit they get a simple notice at the top of the page that it MAY be in use and when the edit button was pressed. This will not prevent anyone from editing, it will just suggest that they wait a bit. Exactly like an inuse template, but automatic. When Person A presses "Edit", the flag is flipped. If Person B then presses "Edit" they will see "Another user may be editing this page. The Edit button was pressed at 15:23, May 30, 2005. You might want to wait a few minutes to avoid edit conflicts." Every time Person A presses "Show preview", the message will be updated and the timer will be reset. (Refreshing Person B's screen at this point will show "Another user may be editing this page. The Show preview button was last pressed at 15:26, May 30, 2005." instead.) If Person A never saves their page, the notice will disappear when the timer runs out. The timer runs out after x minutes since the last button press by Person A. It should not indicate a potential conflict if you are editing two different sections. I noticed this is already done on moinmoinwiki. See above URL for more discussion.
Hallo! I thing this is a wrong approach. What if person A just looks at the code but never saves the page and person B is waiting. It is kind of "mental" deadlock. Personaly I start editing on a problem , open dozens of other browsers (with or without editing) and save after several hours. At Nuka-Wiki I have experienced some weeks ago an implementation with the notification that the page was *deleted* *since* edit was pressed. I thing this makes more sense because it averts about *real* conflicts. The new button "Show changes" allows anyway "diffs" *before* saving. Regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
> I thing this is a wrong approach. What if person A just looks at the code but > never saves the page and person B is waiting. Sure. But how often does this happen? Edit conflicts themselves happen rarely, but are very frustrating when they do. I know personally I would see the warning message and go do something else for five minutes and come back and see if it is still there. > It is kind of "mental" deadlock. > Personaly I start editing on a problem , open dozens of other browsers (with or > without editing) and save after several hours. > > At Nuka-Wiki I have experienced some weeks ago an implementation with the > notification that the page was *deleted* *since* edit was pressed. I thing this > makes more sense because it averts about *real* conflicts. That is a good reason, too. > The new button "Show > changes" allows anyway "diffs" *before* saving. I don't know about this button.
> It is kind of "mental" deadlock. That's the whole point.
compare with bug 1510: Provide "edit warning" for pages when someone else has just started editing
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1510 ***
