Wikipedia:Edit conflicts

1. Click the "Edit this page" link
2. Copy the text to be edited (or the entire article) from the editing page's textbox in the browser
3. Paste it into your text editor
4. Make the desired changes
5. Copy the new text
6. Paste it back into the editing page's textbox
7. Click the Save button

Alternative:

• Click the Preview button to check formatting. If satisfied, click Save.

Edit Conflict

Whether you made your change offline or directly in the editing page's textbox, occasionally another user may beat you to it, i.e., transmit their change before you transmit yours. You will then get the dreaded Edit Conflict page, in which there are two textboxes. The top is what the 'pedia server currently has; the bottom (which you might have to scroll down to notice) contains what you tried to send.

At this point, you should click the Recent Changes link and read the comment the other user made. Then, view the page (as changed by the other user), and unless they made your change for you, do the following:

1. Click the "Edit this page" link (again)
2. Paste the new text back into the editing page's textbox (again)
3. Click the Save button (again)

We all need to know how to deal with edit conflicts. Here are some facts you might not be aware of:

• The edit conflicts page contains 2 text boxes
• The upper box shows what the other contributor submitted
• The lower box, which you usually have to scroll down to see, contains your submission

When an "edit conflict" occurs, you can copy your remarks from the lower box, paste them into the upper box, and re-submit.

This way no one loses anything.