Revision conflict with 2 users editing a wiki post at the same time

[Tim_Jefferies]

I just ran into this. There is a fantastic feature request discussion and solutions suggested here:

Editing wiki posts at same time as someone else sometimes loses revisions

When two people edit wiki posts at once, someone always overrides another person’s post. How hard would it be to have a google docs-style of editing, where it doesn’t override? Alternatively, a functional merge would be nice, while a lock, even though it is better than nothing, is not the best option (as is discussed in Edit lock when editing posts; especially wiki post).

Somebody wrote the collude plugin and then the feature request was closed. Only issue is that collude plugin is broken, and so I’m still stuck with this issue.

Can we reopen that feature request?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I believe we are definitely going to un-break that plugin and make it first party… but I still personally view it as a fairly experimental thing. @sam can clarify as it is his call.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Yes we sponsored some work on collude, we need to run through official validation to make sure it works as it says on the box and we can make it an official plugin available to our enterprise customers based on interest out there.

I agree it is pretty experimental, but for this very specific use cases etherpad like functionality can be pretty handy.

I guess watch this space for when we wrap up our work.

[tshenry (Taylor)]

Closing this out with a link to:

Discourse Shared Edits

Summary: Discourse shared edits allows multiple users to collaboratively edit posts in real time. This feature is default disabled and must be enabled explicitly by moderators on posts. GitHub: GitHub - discourse/discourse-shared-edits: Shared edits for Discourse Install: Follow the plugin installation guide. Features Moderators can toggle shared edits on a topic (red) via the gear icon on the composer bar. Note that the plugin does not enable edit access per se. This m…