Two people editing a wiki post at the same time results in a lost edit
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Continuing the discussion from Wiki test:
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@pjhh editing after closure.
@Zecc Tried to edit at the same time as PJH and his edit was swallowed :(
Well - clearly a problem, but not sure how it should be best handled, if at all..
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The best handling would be for the system to either or both:
a) lock the post from editing once someone starts an edit, warn other users;
b) when submitting an edit, warn if it is no longer based on the most recent version, ask what to do.
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How does one create Wikis anyway? Is it like polls? Title-based?
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How does one create Wikis anyway?
Ask a TL4 or above.
Edit: We get a spanner icon with the following menu on each post:
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Another bug?
Go to http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/wiki-test/4667/
See currently-last diff (17 vs 18) in HTML. It looks like the smiley changed from square to round.
Now check Raw...
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If there's a solution, MediaWiki might have it. It's what Wikipedia uses and that gets like a lot of edits at once.
I do know that tvtropes locks the page when its being edited by someone.
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There are a few diff bugs floating around. What I see in that instance:
Raw:
HTML side by side:
HTML:
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It's what I see also. And notice the text I added â
(Zecc's)â isn't there in the post as seen outside history.I'm going to try to reproduce in this post:
@Zecc Tried to edit at the same time as @PJH and his (Zecc's) first edit was swallowed :(
No repro, but then again it counted as a ninja-edit. Will try again later.
It's now later. No repro.
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It's not a square smiley (it uses the same round frowning.png), but there's some CSS on it that makes the background look that way:
[code].modal.history-modal .diff-del {
background: #f4bcae;
}[/code]There's also a corresponding one on the other smiley, that doesn't blend into the colour so it looks round:
[code].modal.history-modal .diff-ins {
background: #dbffdb;
}[/code]Edit 2: Of course, trwtf is why it thinks the smiley was deleted and inserted.
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Edit 2: Of course, trwtf is why it thinks the smiley was deleted and inserted.
Because the image size was added into the html, which happens after the post is saved. TRWTF.
