On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I am asking Quim to provide us an update.
Me? :) I'm just an editor who, like many of you, has suffered this problem occasionally.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:02 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com
wrote:
that would be a hullarious feature! which is btw available in some other opensoure and proprietory wikis.
TWiki is an open source wiki and also has (had?) a concept of blocking a page while someone else is editing. This feature might sound less than ideal in the context of, say, Wikipedia when a new Pope is being nominated, but I can see how many editors and MediaWiki adminis have missed such feature at some point.
If I understood correctly, VisualEditor already represents an improvement vs Wikitext because the chances of triggering conflicting edits are smaller, because of the way the actual content is modified and updated in every edit.
There was some idea to add to VisualEditor Etherpad-like concurrent and real-time editing, but maybe JamesF or marktraceur know better the current status.
Rupert, in any case you see that the trend is going in the direction of being more efficient handling concurrent edits. Blocking pages while another editor supposedly is working on them might work in e.g. corporate wikis where most f the times the Edit link is clicked for a reason, but it could be potentially counterproductive in sites like Wikipedia.
Just my 2 cents not even being an expert in this topic.