On 12 November 2014 14:26, Nkansah Rexford nkansahrexford@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.