Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/3 comments/reply (16)

“editing of sections actually isn't involved in preventing edit conflicts”

Of course it is.

While I am editing the section A of an article, someone else can edit section B and no edit conflict. If I edit the whole page and change only the section A in it, when I click Publish I am publishing the new section A and the old section B. If the other person has edited section B in the same time, edit conflict ! Which is particularly annoying. So, to avoid that, the future of Wikipedia is being able to choose edit scopes as atomic as possible.