Ligulem wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
The idea is to display, in a box in the edit window, information about who else has the same edit window open. For example, it could display each username, along with the amount of time they have been idle and the edit summary they have typed if any.
While technically a nice idea, I'm a bit concerned about privacy.
I for myself do expect that I can edit a page and type anything into the edit window without anyone else knowing. Not even knowing that I have this page open. I don't want to publish any info *until* I hit save.
I have several times canceled a talk page post already written into the edit window (censoring myself). And sometimes I was really glad having canceled ;)
I feel the same way, which is why I'm not suggesting that we send the actual text typed into the edit box to the server. Just some meta-information such as number of characters typed, or an explicitly public summary. Perhaps we could have a separate textbox where the user can type a message to send to other people viewing the edit page. Imagine if you could type "I'm busy rewriting this rubbish stub, don't bother fixing the spelling". Then anyone else who opened the article from new pages patrol would know to stay away. It would save a lot of edit conflicts.
-- Tim Starling