[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Why do edit conflicts suck so much?

[Martijn Hoekstra]

Because that I know of there is no current way to determine if an edit
conflict is in different sections, and can be auto-merged. I would
like to see an automerge feature sometime in the future, where a
proposed merge is displayed. It would solve a lot of problems, even
for a very conservative algorithm that only suggests a merge when the
edits are done to different sections. It still would only have to load
the specific section again to make the changes. I don't know how hard
this would be though, but it doesn't sound too hard to me.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Couple stupid questions: When you get an edit conflict, why does the entire
>  page load instead of the relevant section? Also, do .js scripts effect the
>  speed of an edit conflict load?
>
>  Nathan
>
>
>
>  On 2/25/08, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > On 25/02/2008, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > Why is the edit conflict process so painful? When I get EC'd, it usually
>  > >  takes 20-30 seconds to work itself out and I typically get a JavaScript
>  > >  error to boot. Isn't there an easier way of handling edit conflicts
>  > that
>  > >  doesn't shut down a browser for up to 30 seconds on a brand new
>  > machine?
>  >
>  >
>  > What's it doing for this 20-30 seconds, and what's the error? I've
>  > never had any problems like that with edit conflicts (they're very
>  > annoying and it's takes me a while to resolve them, but my browser
>  > copes fine).
>  >
>  >
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