Every day we get thousands of new articles, many by new editors, and notoriously the quarter of our new editors who start by creating an article are less likely to stay than other newbies.

One reason for this is that there is intense activity around new pages - there has to be in order to delete most attack pages within one or two minutes of creation. But the side effect of this is an awful lot of edit conflicts between people tagging articles, categorising them and actually fixing them. Much of this could be resolved by the simple expedient of treating tagging, categorisation and editing as three different types of edit. If someone adds a new sentence or fixes a typo there is no need for that to conflict with the adding of a category or template. A fairly simple bit of code should be able to pickup all three different types of edit and combine them without rejecting any. In effect the categories at the end and the templates at the top would be treated as different sections to the rest of the article.

Version: 1.22.0
Severity: enhancement