On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am asking Quim to provide us an update.
Me? :) I'm just an editor who, like many of you, has suffered this problem
occasionally.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:02 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
that would be a hullarious feature! which is btw
available in some other
opensoure and proprietory wikis.
TWiki is an open source wiki and also has (had?) a concept of blocking a
page while someone else is editing. This feature might sound less than
ideal in the context of, say, Wikipedia when a new Pope is being nominated,
but I can see how many editors and MediaWiki adminis have missed such
feature at some point.
If I understood correctly, VisualEditor already represents an improvement
vs Wikitext because the chances of triggering conflicting edits are
smaller, because of the way the actual content is modified and updated in
every edit.
i'd have strong doubts here, from a technical standpoint :)
Rupert, in any case you see that the trend is going in
the direction of
being more efficient handling concurrent edits. Blocking pages while
another editor supposedly is working on them might work in e.g. corporate
wikis where most f the times the Edit link is clicked for a reason, but it
could be potentially counterproductive in sites like Wikipedia.
i can only 100% agree, quim, and i am glad you help clarifying the
feature request in this direction. the suggestion is "notify" or
"show", not "block". if a user presses edit, the page shows other
persons who pressed edit in the last, say 15 minutes, and did not save
yet. it sounds simple to implement, but big benefit, especially with
many users. an additional goodie could be to show it on the edit
window of other user as well, so she can quickly save. if a user
ignores the notification and is quicker in saving, we have the current
situation. additionally these "in work" templates would be made
superfluous in many cases.
rupert