Talk:Parser 2011/Real-time collaboration

It's a very cool idea, but can it work without Javascript? I am not enthusiastic about making features which are available to haves but not have nots. 67.6.179.27 00:19, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Impossible. Johnduhart 04:48, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

My thoughts about real-time collaboration: --Yair rand 00:25, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Multi-person editing should be the default. Anyone who clicks edit while someone else is editing should "join" their edit screen unless otherwise specified. If a user want to go into a "private editing" mode, their edits should take lower priority when resolving an edit conflict.
 * Mediawiki needs to be modified to allow more than one user to be the author of an edit. No individual author should have "higher" placement in a recorded shared edit than any other, and all shared edits should show up in each user's contributions.
 * History diffs of shared edits should be completely transparent. Every modification within the edit should be recorded in the diff, and finding out who did what when should be simple. Viewing the history of a diff should be possible before the diff is finished/saved. Linking to any part or parts of a diff should be possible.
 * Any blocks should take effect immediately, stopping a user from continuing the edit they are currently working on. Countering "live" vandalism needs to be a simple process. A "report this user" button would probably be useful, and undoing someone else's contributions to a diff should be as simple as possible. Users should also have their own "undo" processes, and standard ctrl-z should undo one's own most recent change.
 * The "creation" of an article and it's first save should be separate actions. An article with no saved revisions and no users actively editing should be automatically deleted. Multiple users should be able to be editing an article with no saved content at once.
 * Any chat functionality should allow standard wikitext if the user wishes to use it. Even after the visual editor is deployed, it will be a long while before users' instinctive "link" reaction is no longer to surround the words with square brackets.
 * Would be useful: A transcludable special page listing all articles currently being edited.