Topic on Help talk:Paragraph-based Edit Conflict Interface

Summary by Christoph Jauera (WMDE)

Thanks for the amazing feedback :-).

Chicocvenancio (talkcontribs)

Most of the times, the edit conflicts are going away by themselves (as in the auto-resolve edit conflict feature is working), on the few times the Two Column showed up for me it was a much better experience than the old one. I've used basing on my version or on the current version and both worked beautifully. Thanks for this feature.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

@Chicocvenancio, thank you so much for the great feedback! We're really happy that the feature works well for you :-) If you see any issues or have suggestions for further improvements in the future, please let us know, too! Have a nice day --Birgit

Chicocvenancio (talkcontribs)

There is a more recent situation that led to a lot of edit conflicts, so I've had more opportunities to test the feature. The only thing I found that could improve it is a better direction on what to do to "change" the version you want to work with. I mean, once I started working with the published version, but latter decided it'd be easier to work with my version and then re-apply the changes made by other users. It took me some 3 seconds to realize copy and paste would solve the problem (copy from one column to the other and then re-apply the changes). Maybe another method could be provided (as in keep the radio buttons on top and have them change the text) or the copy and paste method be hinted at in the interface. It is a really small detail though.

The feature has already helped me a lot, edit conflicts are no longer really frustrating, which makes me less frustrated with the users who make three or four edits after posting a response on a talkpage. I haven't experienced edit conflicts in articles with this feature yet, but I imagine it is a lot more rewarding to not have to deal with edit conflicts (as in the magical solution that works most times) or to have an interface that makes it easy to deal with in the main namespace.