Topic on Help talk:Paragraph-based Edit Conflict Interface

Summary by Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE)
Evad37 (talkcontribs)

I just recently got an edit conflict which showed up as three columns instead of two; leaving the editors rather squished:

Any idea what's going wrong?

Hanna Petruschat (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

Hi @Evad37, Thanks for reporting this incident. This is nothing we intended to show up. We guess it might be related to gadgets you might use. Could you give us some insights on that? To reproduce this issue or try out the current beta-version you can go to the edit conflict simulation page. We are looking forward to hear some more details. Thank you!

Evad37 (talkcontribs)

Hi Hanna. I have the following gadgets enabled:

  • Browsing:
    • Redirect image links to Commons for files hosted there
    • Print options: control how pages are printed (for example, remove images or backgrounds)
    • Twinkle
    • Enable the Teahouse "Ask a question" feature
    • Reference Tooltips
    • FormWizard
  • Watchlist:
    • Geonotice
    • Display watchlist notices
    • (This loads the base style for the watchlist. Please do not disable this option.)
    • Display green collapsible arrows and green bullets
    • Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold
  • Editing
    • Add two new dropdown boxes below the edit summary box with some useful default summaries
    • HotCat
    • wikEdDiff
    • Yet Another AFC Helper Script
    • Form for filing disputes at the dispute resolution noticeboard
    • CharInsert: add a toolbar under the edit window for quickly inserting wiki markup and special characters
    • refToolbar: add a "cite" button to the editing toolbar for quick addition of commonly used citation templates
    • Add extra buttons to the old (non-enhanced) editing toolbar
  • Appearance
    • Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page
    • Add a clock to the personal toolbar that displays the current time in UTC and provides a link to purge the current page
    • Display an assessment of an article's quality in its page header
    • Show radio buttons to switch between views of certain content, such as some maps
    • SidebarTranslate: display sidebar language links in English

Other beta features I have enabled are:

  • New filters for edit review
  • Wikitext syntax highlighting

I also have several user scripts (w:User:Evad37/common.js), but I don't think any of them interact with the editing area. I also have a bunch of css for overriding the Vector typography refresh (m:User:Evad37/global.css) and various other changes (w:User:Evad37/common.css).

And I'm using Google Chrome (version 63) on Windows 7.

I haven't been able to reproduce using the edit conflict simulation. Though I've noticed the simulation doesn't have the proper CharInsert toolbar (shows up in "copy and paste" mode instead of click to insert like in my screenshot above), and it also doesn't have the Wikitext syntax highlighting active.

Jan Dittrich (WMDE) (talkcontribs)
Christoph Jauera (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

Hey @Evad37,

thanks for your feedback and the well ordered list of tools you use, this helps a lot to identify the problem. I created a ticket on Phabricator to take track of the issue so we have it on our monitors https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184800