There have been complaints about edit conflicts for high traffic articles like the corona virus pandemic. @kaldari thought the encouraging people to edit sections might be helpful.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T72163 Edit conflicts (tracking) | |||
| Invalid | kaldari | T248318 Surface some sort of advice on section editing as a solution to edit conflicts |
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Section editing will not help if you're getting edit conflicts. MediaWiki can already automatically resolve edit conflicts where two users edit text in different parts of the page (you don't get the resolution screen, your edit just gets saved). You only get the conflict resolution screen if both edits change the same paragraph (or nearby paragraphs), in which case the edits are probably to the same section.