[WikiEN-l] Dealing with juvenile vandalism

[Andrew Gray]

On 08/03/07, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> There would still be edit conflicts.  Let's say the delay is 15 minutes.  At
> 8:00, anon edits a sentence (validly). At 8:05, registered user edits the
> same sentence differently.  What happens?  Okay, now it's 8:15, time for the
> anon edit to go live.  What happens then?

The second user doesn't edit the original text; he edits the 0800
modified text, and *those* edits go live. No edit conflicts.

(The intent of that proposal is to do exactly this - it allows
vandalism to be caught in that 15 minute lag time)

In effect, it's like what you have now when you edit a heavily
trafficed page - the version you work on may be very different from
the one you were reading two minutes ago, because you edit the version
on the server not the version you're reading.


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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk