Trust level needed to edit a wiki post containing many mentions

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A wiki post with 10+ mentions can’t be edited and saved by users with Trust Level 1 or 2, even if they didn’t add the mentions. pfaffman suggests this is not a bug, but rather a feature request to test only the changes made in the most recent edit. Proposed workarounds include increasing the max mentions per post limit, removing the @ symbol, or using the full username with a link, as demonstrated by sam. Julien_Palard clarifies the difference between these methods, and Benjamin_D confirms that using the full username with a link doesn’t count as a mention.

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I have a wiki post with 10+ mentions in it (it’s a “who does what” list).

Sadly users with a Trust Level of 1 or 2 can’t save it after having edited it:

They can edit it, but when clicking “save” they get an error about not having the right to mention 10+ users in a post.

I think this is a bug: they did not mentionned 10+ users, the mentions were already here.

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But that check knows only what the whole message looks like not just what change the last edit was. I’d say that having a wiki edit somehow test only the changes made in the most recent edit would be a feature request. That seems . . . complicated.

The best work-around I can think of is to up the max mentions per post to a really big number and hope that no one behaves badly.

A worse one is using just the username with no @ or quoting @username , which is pretty ugly since you’ve now lost the beauty of mentions.

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Another very handy workaround is to simply not use mentions in the post:

@pfaffman
@pfaffman
Jay Pfaffman

Arguably they are more handy in a wiki like scenario anyway, you are being deliberate this is not attempting to mention people.

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Oh, the 3rd one with the full name, did you constructed it manually like by typing [Julien Palard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/julien_palard) ?

(If I get the other correctly, the first one is a regular mention while the 2nd is an inline literal like `@pfaffman`?)

And if I understand correctly only the 1rst counts as a mention?

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nope, not a mention, that’s the raw:

Another very handy workaround is to simply not use mentions in the post: 

[@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman) 
`@pfaffman`
[Jay Pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)

Arguably they are more handy in a wiki like scenario anyway, you are being deliberate this is not attempting to mention people.
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