On 12 November 2014 14:26, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> 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.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester