Last modified: 2013-10-28 11:24:45 UTC
edit conflicts are a pain especially to newbies. Many common edit conflicts could be avoided with minor changes to MediaWiki. If the mediawiki software treated adding a new section as not conflicting with editing the final section of a page then many common edit conflicts would become parallel editing. So currently if the page ends: ==blah== I have an idea ********** signed ~~~~ and two people want to edit changing it to either : ==blah== I have an idea ********** signed ~~~~ :breeches NotCensored, NotSocialMedia, iz fattening and possibly licensed to the Illuminati. Do it! ~~~~ Or ==blah== I have an idea ********** signed ~~~~ ==Reptilians== OK so per BLP we can't have a category of ''People named by ****" as Reptilians. But how about a hidden category? Wouldn't that make more sense anyway? ~~~~ One of them will have a nasty edit conflict and will either waste some time or be lost forever. But if we changed mediawiki to say that a new section can always be added without edit conflict then we can haz: ==blah== I have an idea ********** signed ~~~~ :breeches NotCensored, NotSocialMedia, iz fattening and possibly licensed to the Illuminati. Do it! ~~~~ ==Reptilians== OK so per BLP we can't have a category of ''People named by ****" as Reptilians. But how about a hidden category? Wouldn't that make more sense anyway? ~~~~ If you doubt the value of this do some stats on the number of edit conflicts per day, and their effect on editor retention
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 22783 ***
This was not solved for so many years; either you do-it-yourself or you wait until the happy-makers deploy Flow. The background of all this is that MW pages are verrry baad for discussion. Each time someone adds a comment, the whole page content is stored in the database. The same happens when changing a category. All this is ignored for years now, and, instead one extension follows the next one. No one cares about the basics. The board or Sue made a decision and all devs had to spend their power there.
