https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62698
Bug ID: 62698
Summary: feature request - make it possible to specify what to
do on edit conflict
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: API
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: benap...@gmail.com
CC: bjor...@wikimedia.org, bryan.tongm...@gmail.com,
roan.katt...@gmail.com, s...@reedyboy.net
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Currently mediawiki auto-merge edits on edit conflict. It would be more useful
if it was possible to specify what should happen, for example there could be
variable
&editconflictresolution=[automerge|fail|overwrite]
automerge - would do what it does now
fail - would return an error in case there was any kind of edit conflict
overwrite - would ignore all edits of other people and would overwrite the page
with new content
This is useful for things like antivandalism tools which need to deliver a
message to users based on current content of their talkpage (the warning
template level get adjusted based on templates currently present on the page).
When two users post in same moment, the edit conflict get resolved by merging
both messages, that have same level. Being able to fail on edit conflict would
allow tool to redownload content of talk page and parse it again.
I believe that other bots / tools could use this as well when they edit the
page based on current content of a page. Especially bots that are doing similar
tasks.
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