writely.com has good real time collaborative editing too. However, the client side needs are simply too much for Wikipedia; currently, even non-css browsers can use Wikipedia. If we were to suddenly start demanding javascript and a constant internet connection we would lose many valuable editors. In addition, many copy the article text into a third party application (word - spellchecking, or notepad++ - macros; i am guilty of using both these apps for editing at some point), make what edits they wish and then copy it back. How do we handle this?
On 9/5/06, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/5/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
Your in famous prediction, eh? I predict that, by the end of the year, the number of edit conflicts will be growing exponentially.
There's a solution to edit conflicts: real-time collaborative editing. http://synchroedit.com/ http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
-- Peace & Love, Erik _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l