[WikiEN-l] Concerning edit conflict lag

[John Reaves]

You probably want http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or the tech list (I'm not
sure of the address).

--John Reaves

On Nov 12, 2007 10:34 AM, Wiki Dudeman <wikidudeman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I wanted to propose a chance concerning how edit conflicts work. I am not
> sure what mailing list this should be done on so I'm just posting it here
> since I know that it's at least on English Wikipedia. The problem is this:
> Whenever I edit a specific subsection of a page and there is an edit
> conflict, it reloads the entire page in edit mode, not just the single
> section that I edited which the edit conflict occurred. This causes problems
> for two reasons. Firstly, Even though I am using a cable modem, it still
> causes a high amount of lag and time to load large pages in edit mode,
> sometimes it even freezes my firefox browser. Secondly, While it loads the
> entire page in edit mode, if another edit occurs while I'm resolving the
> edit conflict, I am forced to do it again and again since the chances of an
> edit conflict occurring are much greater when editing an entire page opposed
> to a single section. My question is this: Is it possible to cause edit
> conflicts to only load the
>  single section edited opposed to the entire page? For instance if I edit
> a subsection of the Admin notice board page and I get an edit conflict, I
> don't want it to load the entire notice board page in edit mode, just the
> single section that I edited so that I can quickly fix it. Is this possible?
>
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