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Bug 52199 - adding certain entities should not cause an edit conflict
adding certain entities should not cause an edit conflict
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Page editing (Other open bugs)
1.22.0
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-07-28 19:11 UTC by WereSpielChequers
Modified: 2014-07-18 12:17 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description WereSpielChequers 2013-07-28 19:11:13 UTC
Every day we get thousands of new articles, many by new editors, and notoriously the quarter of our new editors who start by creating an article are less likely to stay than other newbies. 

One reason for this is that there is intense activity around new pages - there has to be in order to delete most attack pages within one or two minutes of creation. But the side effect of this is an awful lot of edit conflicts between people tagging articles, categorising them and actually fixing them. Much of this could be resolved by the simple expedient of treating tagging, categorisation and editing as three different types of edit. If someone adds a new sentence or fixes a typo there is no need for that to conflict with the adding of a category or template. A fairly simple bit of code should be able to pickup all three different types of edit and combine them without rejecting any. In effect the categories at the end and the templates at the top would be treated as different sections to the rest of the article.
Comment 1 Andre Klapper 2013-07-29 14:19:32 UTC
Hi,

could you clarify what you currently see (and where), what the exact problem is about it, and what a proposed solution could look like? Currently this report is rather hard to handle. Thanks in advance!
Comment 2 Andre Klapper 2013-08-14 12:14:14 UTC
Could you clarify what you currently see (and where), what the exact problem is
about it, and what a proposed solution could look like? Currently this report
is rather hard to handle. Thanks in advance!
Comment 3 Andre Klapper 2014-07-18 12:17:46 UTC
Unfortunately closing this report as no further information has been provided.

WereSpielChequers: Please feel free to reopen this report if you can provide the information asked for. Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug for more information. Thanks!

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