[Bug 19389] Find better way to handle edit conflicts

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19389

--- Comment #3 from Chris Mills <cmills@w3.org> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Disallowing other folks from editing an article if someone else has it open
> > doesn't work because what happens if someone opens an article for editing
> > and then goes on a vacation?
> 
> 
> If someone goes on vacation then their should be a timeout to unlock the
> page for others to edit.  Dokuwiki has this type of feature but it is a
> flat-filebased wiki and can't do conflict merging like MediaWiki should.

This is the kind of thing I was thinking of - a timeout system should surely
work.

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