Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/25/06, Ligulem ligulem@pobox.com wrote:
Ok. But you wrote: ... "and the edit summary they have typed if any"
So others could see the edit summary? (Shudder ;)
Maybe an optional message box would be helpful (editable). The message while editing might not be the same as the edit summary.
Two separate messages for one short edit might be a bit overkill.
If it's too much then don't type it. If you think the feature won't be used at all, then I think you have another thing coming.
Dunno about everyone else, but my usual editing sequence goes something like this:
- Make a change
- Type an edit summary and set the watch/minor checkboxes
- Preview
- Save or go back to 1.
Yes, so does everyone's, that's because we don't have an interactive message box to type into. Behaviour will change according to features.
Let me also say this: if your typical editing behaviour is to open the edit box, change some little thing, and save it immediately, then you're one of the culprits of the edit conflict problem. You're the kind of user that the "please don't edit this" message is aimed at. Some users want to spend longer editing and reviewing a change, and they shouldn't be penalised for their extra dedication to correctness.
Chatting with each other while editing? Like an IRC channel with the title of the page?
Some kind of chat features would be kind of cool (but a totally separate project), bearing in mind that:
- discussing anything "serious" by chat is bad for talk pages as it's
not recorded
- IRC already exists :)
However, it would certainly be useful as not everyone has access to an IRC client, and it would be more centralised if built into the main interface.
Enough chit chat, where's my Person 1? I want concrete features and I want them now. The feature is a simple one, if we can assemble the right skills, just a few hours' work each. But to get us started, someone needs to make that UI mockup.
-- Tim Starling