On 16 November 2014 14:36, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
James: would it be possible to automatically save the
text of a page to a
user's sandbox when they encounter an edit conflict? This would overwrite
the content of the sandbox, but that could be reverted using the normal
history page for the sandbox.
Hmm. Publishing content without the user clicking the "Save page" button a
second time feels very icky. Also, would we need to go around and
auto-delete these for users once the edit conflict was fixed? This doesn't
sound like a perfect solution. There's also the issue with "the user's
sandbox" not existing as an actual thing, just a hack that a couple of
wikis have invented…
Maybe we should make the (read only) "your content" box more prominent,
appearing before the "current content" one? Not sure this would help more
than it would hinder everyone for the order to be reversed.
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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