Topic on Help talk:Paragraph-based Edit Conflict Interface

Can't seem to make this work

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Summary by Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE)

We've deployed a few bugfixes recently and this problem should now be resolved. Thanks everyone for reporting and investigating!

Samwalton9 (talkcontribs)

When I test an edit conflict, I have what appears to be the correct view, except the right hand column is blurred out for no obvious reason. I assume this shouldn't be the case?

Jan Dittrich (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

I briefly checked back with a developer. We will try to find out why you got just the blurred column and update the extension.

As a manual fix (in the hopefully short meantime): If the blurred text happens, you can "force" the browser to get the part of the page which is seemingly missing by pressing Ctrl+f5. It should be only needed once (Since it seems to connected the "cache" of ones browser; ctrl+f5 forces a rebuild of the cache)

Samwalton9 (talkcontribs)
Jan Dittrich (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

Thanks for reporting! This, indeed should not happen. You should get a dialog that asks you what should be in the editor (your version or the currently saved version). I forward it to my colleagues.

Jan Dittrich (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

Hi @Samwalton9, we fixed the issue. Thanks again for reporting! I hope that if you have edit conflicts, the function will be helpful, now. If you or anybody else is interested in the technical details of the fix, here is the phabricator issue with linked code changes.

Samwalton9 (talkcontribs)

Seems to be fixed, got the dialog boxes this time!

InsaneHacker (talkcontribs)
Lea Voget (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

Hi @InsaneHacker, thanks for reporting the bug again! We fail to reproduce it ourselves at the moment - could you help us with some more information if possible? Ideally we would be interested in the output you can see in a js console, but if you don't use that, could you maybe send us a screenshot or let us know the gagdets you are using that may also do something on the page? That would be great :)

InsaneHacker (talkcontribs)

Since I don't encounter edit conflicts that often It'll be a bit hard to replicate, but I'll try to if it happens again.

InsaneHacker (talkcontribs)

@Jan Dittrich (WMDE)@Lea Voget (WMDE) It happened again, here's a screenshot:

I use the following gadgets:

  • HotCat
  • Reference Tooltips
  • A script which adds an extra tab that I can click to purge a page (not sure if this is a local script).

I've currently enabled the following beta features (including two-column view):

  • Page Previews
  • Two column edit conflict
  • Content translation

I hope this can help pinpoint the problem.

Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

@InsaneHacker Thanks for the details, unfortunately, we are still not able to reproduce your issue.

It would help us if you could tell us which browser (and version of the browser) you were using when it happened to you.

Also, if it happens again, could you then try to click on the help-icon (the question mark) and tell us if that opens the help dialog for you? That would help us identifying where the problem lies.

Thank you!

Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

@Samwalton9 I'm wondering if you in the meantime had the issue again as well? At the moment we are not able to reproduce the issue that @InsaneHacker reported and we also don't have any reports from other users.

Thank you!

Samwalton9 (talkcontribs)

Nope, everything started working as intended for me after the fix.

InsaneHacker (talkcontribs)

@Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE) I don't know if you changed anything, but I got an edit conflict today without the issue. It appears that the problem consisted of the fact that the popup-dialogue box wasn't appearing before. You need to interact with the popup-box to make the contents of the right box un-blurry. It works fine for me now.

Tobias Gritschacher (WMDE) (talkcontribs)