I think it would be ok to have a second "Save page" prompt that offers to
save the page in a user's userspace.

The save location could be something like User:Jimbo\editconflicts\pagename

Auto-deletion of the edit conflict save would not be necessary.

I also like Zack's suggestion. I think that could work with differences
highlighted between the two versions:


"EDIT CONFLICT. Another user has edited the page between the time that you
started your edit and the time that you saved the page. But don't worry,
you can reconcile the differences."

 YOUR VERSION     OTHER VERSION
+-------------+  +-------------+
| (read only  |  | (read only  |
|  text area) |  |  text area) |
| (background |  | (background |
|  greenish)  |  |  yellowish) |
+-------------+  +-------------+

"Please merge the two versions
into the text area below and then press save."
+-----------------------------
-+
| (editable text area)         |
| (background white)           |
| (prefilled with the best     |
|  3-way merge we can manage)  |
+------------------------------+


Pine
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