Topic on Help talk:Paragraph-based Edit Conflict Interface

The wikEd gadget was responsible for the broken layout in this case. We temporarily deactivated the gadget on the Two Column Edit Conflict View page.

Please remove this feature, it only shows the most recent version. Though there are some buttons that should allow you to retrieve you own edits, but the buttons are behind the box with the most recent version. On my notebook, all the buttons and boxes are all superimposing each other, creating a chaos. i am using Chrome and am not zooming my screen in.

Please remove this feature so my edits do not get lost every time.

Hello Farang,

Thanks for letting us know that the function causes problems. Did you make, by any chance, a screenshot of how it looked like on your screen? By that we could possibly track what caused the problem.

As a quick fix, you can disable the function in the settings for beta features – but our aim would be that the feature works for all users.

(@Christoph Jauera (WMDE) – do you have an idea what caused the problem?)

Yes, i did. How do I send it to you?

It could be that there is a conflict with other functions I have enabled, of which you can see a list here. It may also be my fault that I have too much enabled.

> Yes, i did. How do I send it to you?

Easiest would be a local upload here or upload at imgur and paste the link here.

> conflict with other functions I have enabled,

Thanks! This can be very helpful to know

Okay, Jan Dittrich, this is the screenshot: File:Schermafdruk 2017-06-20 15.22.10.png

Thanks for the screenshot! I created an ticket on phabricator for this problem and put the screenshot there, too. (Phabricator is the platform the developers use to keep track of such issues)

Okay, thanks. :-)

Hey @Farang Rak Tham,

also thank from my side for the feedback and the screenshot. That really looks nasty. To reproduce and fix the issue it would be really great if you could provide us with some additional input:

- What browser in what version do you use? ( it looks like Firefox from the screenshot but you can never be sure enough ;-) )

- Do you have any Gadgets or special user scripts activated and which ones?

Thanks and best,

Christoph

Ah sorry I failed to notice the list of gadgets in the ticket. So please ignore my last point :-).

Hello @Christoph Jauera (WMDE), I use Chrome 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit). Thanks for the follow-up.

I also have a list of Chrome apps installed, but is that relevant?

Hey, thanks. I think the issue is more related to gadgets and scripts so the Chrome apps are probably irrelevant. But if you don't mind sharing them, it could be important still.

Hey @Farang Rak Tham I tested the scripts in your common.js and they seem fine.

I then took a look at the wikEd gadget in the user preferences and it seems to be the reason for the broken edit conflict page. I assume you have the gadget enabled in your settings.

It would be great if you could disable the gadget and try to test the new edit conflict screen without it. Just so I can confirm the reason for the broken page.

Since wikEd is used a lot we will definitely think of a solution for the wikEd users, so they can use our new feature. I will keep you updated.

Thanks again and best,

Christoph

It is rather difficult to simulate an edit conflict, because of the timing. Perhaps you can let me know when you are editing some article, and I will then edit that article as well to trigger a conflict. Thank you.

Hehe, there is a way to create a conflict with yourself. This is how you do it:

1) Create a test page in your user namespace, e.g.: User:Farang Rak Tham/Test

2) Add some lines of text to that page and save it.

3) Now open the page again to edit it. But for now just leave it open and don't do anything.

4) Now open another browser window in private browsing mode where you edit the page. ( you will act as an anonymous user there )

5) Change the text you added originally and save.

6) Now go back to your browser window where you are logged in as regular user ( with the still open editor ) and change the same part of the text ( but change it to something else )

7) When you now save you should get an edit conflict ( with yourself as anonymous user )

Done. ( thats also how I do it when I need to test the whole thing ;-) )

Dear all,

I have tried editing on another language Wikipedia, and the problem no longer occurs. On that language, WikEd is not operating. So it may well be WikEd that is causing the problems described. I found the edit conflict editor easy to use. Nice work!

Thanks for the feedback. Will close the issue for now.