Help talk:Paragraph-based Edit Conflict Interface

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Update: We completely revised the interface for this feature based on user feedback and user test.

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Does it work with experimental source code editor 2017 that's still experimental I've recently deleted edit from one person on Wikipedia article and on discussion while in middle of conversation about me deleting her edits. Because of this I needed to diable auto experimental use feature on Wikipedia and disable the editor.

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Task T265980

example edit 1

Header: Request article name1

name1 Cookie Hello the example look here sign1

example edit 2

Header: Request article name2

name2 Hello the look here urgent !!!! sign2

I want to add both headings to the page at the same time, but it forces me to choose one or the other because of some similarities between the edits.

(Header: Request article name1) (Header: Request article name2)

(name1 Cookie ... example ... sign1) (name2 ... urgent !!!! sign2)

(all of example edit 1) (nothing)

(nothing) (all of example edit 2)

It's probably hard to tell when to separate words but i'll report this anyway

The analysis in Phabricator was correct - I'm also going to note that the page was Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

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Task T265634

I suddenly see conflict interface is now for up and down. I have no idea which one survives when it saves, so I opted to just re-do the edit from the scratch. I don't know why this changes were made (or for what), but please clearly indicate WHICH version survives.

Hi @-revi: This is the interface, which is shown for edit conflicts on talk pages. In this case both edits survives. You can just adjust the order of the comments and edit your own comment.

That was not what it was originally implemented (Special:Permalink/4055984 screenshot - is what I expected).

In that case, I think your messages on the edit conflict should be more clear that both will survive. You can't assume everyone knows "both will survive", as I demonstrated.

On EnWikipedia we have {{Edit conflict}}. It would be very useful if this interface could automatically add the template to comments when triggered.

I said the issue in the title

Thanks for the report! All translations (except English) are done on translatewiki.net. I had a look, but can't find this exact sentence. The word "לעזור" appears a single time in twocolconflict-split-header-hint. The other words appear a few more times in these messages:

• twocolconflict-split-header-hint-beta
• twocolconflict-split-tour-popup2-header
• twocolconflict-split-tour-dialog-message-single-column-view
• twocolconflict-talk-header-overview

If you can't make the edits yourself, please let me know which message needs to be changed, and how.

I've translated the en.WP article Coordination Council (Belarus) on the French Wikipedia (Conseil de coordination (Biélorussie)). The good interlanguage links to Russian Wikipedia when the articles doesn't exist in the english WP have been wrongly translated in the French translation into English Wikipedia links to english WP articles which do not exist !

This does indeed sound like a bug. But:

• The interlanguage links are on Wikidata at d:Q98437710.
• I reviewed the history of fr:Conseil de coordination (Biélorussie) but couldn't spot an edit that fixes broken links, despite interlanguage links.
• How is this related to the edit conflict interface?

I see that the first edit on fr:Conseil de coordination (Biélorussie) is tagged as being done with Content translation/V2. Maybe your report was meant to go to Talk:Content translation?

If I open the editor for an answer and then think long enough about my answer, the tool erases every answer which was saved in the meantime. I don't think that's the way it should work.

We just had a Sperrprüfung because of this behaviorand I could reproduce it easily. --~~~~

@Seewolf yikes, that's unfortunate to say the least. I added a bug report to Phabricator and will provided an update as soon as possible --~~~~

@Seewolf: We haven't been able to reproduce the issue. You said you could do that. Can you explain in a little more detail how you did it?

I really liked the new edit conflict interface (the one with the radio buttons), but even with that, edit conflicts in discussions were still a pain. It was great for articles or editing the same text, but when adding to a discussion, I found myself, more often than not, just reopening the edit-interface and adding my text again because it was easier. I just got this new paragraph-based interface and it's amazing. I'm really excited about this feature and am thankful to everyone who is working on it!

My only suggestion is to add more helpful tooltips or labels. Having seen the previous radio-button interface, this one confused me a bit and it took me some time to figure out what would happen when I hit "publish". I think RoySmith gave a more detailed description below which was similar to my confusion. I remember when I first got the interface with the radio buttons that there were blue dots that were part of a tutorial or something? Could those be reintroduced?

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Hi @Wugapodes:, thanks for your feedback. We are glad to hear you like the new interfaces.

Currently, there are no blue buttons in the talk page edit conflict interface, but we will take your feedback into consideration and see how we can improve the tooltips and help text as we roll out the interface to more wikis.  --For the Technical Wishes Team

+1

I made this https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD:%D0%9A%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0:%D0%9B%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5-%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8B-1941-1945/doc&diff=108478188&oldid=93717675 edit, clicked save and was shown the conflict interface. (perhaps the mouse could quickly click twice on the save button) But the interface compared my edit with the revision (the last in the history of the template) from 2018!

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Task T36423

I've tried to edit conflict with myself in the Sandbox, but it just overwrote my first change with the second. A demo setup would be helpful.

Help:Paragraph-based Edit Conflict Interface#Usage mentions to enable the beta feature. There's no such option in my Beta Preferences, though according to the roadmap it's still in beta.

Hi @Aron Manning:, thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, there is no demo setup available for this feature. You can create an edit conflict with yourself if you make one of the changes from a private/incognito window where you aren’t logged in to your account.

Whether the feature is available as a Beta Preference depends on which wiki you are on. On MediaWiki it is a default feature already, so it’s not shown as a Beta Preference in the list. The reason it’s still a beta feature on the roadmap is because it’s currently only a default feature on dewiki, arwiki, fawiki and Group 0 wikis (MediaWiki is in this group). For all other wikis it remains a beta feature for now. --For the Technical Wishes Team

> You can create an edit conflict with yourself if you make one of the changes from a private/incognito window where you aren’t logged in to your account.

Thank you for the detailed answers. To clarify: this means that if a user conflicts with themself, that case is ignored?

Hi @Aron Manning:, yes, that’s right. But the fact that a user’s conflict with themselves is ignored is not actually something that is decided by this interface. It’s something that the MediaWiki core code does through the “EditPage class”. We didn’t work on that code in this project, so whether an edit conflict is detected and then shown actually depends on the same MediaWiki core code that has been in place for a long time, not on the new paragraph-based edit conflict interface. -- For the Technical Wishes Team

I suspected that is the case. From one aspect it makes sense to avoid complicating editing with conflict resolution with oneself - probably editors just want their last version. Thank you for confirming this.

I'm sorry to hear this is causing confusion. MediaWiki's behavior is underspecified and rather inconsistent when "conflicting with yourself". There are dozens of tickets discussing this problem for years, most notably phab:T36423, phab:T58849, and phab:T222805, as well as very recent incidents, see phab:T246726. When testing the conflict resolution interface it's important to do this with two different users. One of them can be an anonymous, not logged in user, as Max already mentioned. That can be done using an incognito window.